On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 29-12-2011 13:45, luigi scarso wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jan Heinen<jahei...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> lots of my images are huge 200x250mm. I reduce their size with: >>> \externalfigure[cow][width=20mm, heigth=25mm] >>> >>> After generating the PDF, the pdf is very huge. >>> >>> 1. Can't Context put the reduced image into the PDF? >>> 2. How can I generate one PDF version for printing (300dpi) and one for >>> the >>> screen (72dpi)? >>> >>> I am using Context mk-IV. >> >> no, you need something like ghostscript. >> In this case (if you have not problems of space and time) it's better >> to transform the pdf in ps with >> pdftops yourfile.pdf >> and then apply ghostscript to the final ps (see the documentation >> about ghostscript) > > > ghostscript can do that directly with the pdf (no need to go through ps) > > (also see: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/71919/match=lowres) yes, but latest ghostscript (ver. 9) sometimes fail when used directly with pdf. pdf -> pdftops ->ps ->ghostscript ->pdf seems to be more robust and gives better results (although space and time consuming).
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