Thanks Hans,
I'll give this a try when I am in a daring mood and less busy.
Matthias
On Jan 7, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 1/8/2013 1:00 AM, Matthias Weber wrote:
>
>> So, this clearly is not a ConTeXt problem. But it causes me major
>> headaches. In my workflow, I have dozens of images
>> that I prepare with Adobe Illustrator and save as pdf files that are still
>> editable with Illustrator, i.e. that include another copy of the
>> file with layers etc. In other words, my pdf images are about 10 times as
>> big as they need to be. I usually just reduce the file size with preview.
>> As this seems to be erroneous now, I am wondering:
>
> it's even worse ... all kind of color and other data is present is such a
> file .. the pstopdf.rb script (comes with mkii) gets rid of some of that
>
> normally at pragma we do such things either automatically (when graphics are
> put in repositories) or with acrobat in batch mode (doable if you get the
> graphics in advance) because doing such thing smanually for thousands of
> images is no fun
>
> you can play with this:
>
> \startluacode
> local gsp = os.type == "windows" and "gswin32c" or "gs"
> local gsc = "%s -q -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dNOCACHE
> -dBATCH -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -sOutputFile=%s %s -c quit"
> local pdp = "pdftops -eps %s %s"
>
> figures.converters.pdf = {
> xxx = function(oldname,newname)
> local tmpname = oldname .. ".ps"
> local command = string.format(pdp,oldname,tmpname)
> os.execute(command)
> local command = string.format(gsc,gsp,newname,oldname)
> os.execute(command)
> end
> }
>
> figures.registersuffix("xxx","pdf")
> \stopluacode
>
> \starttext
>
> \externalfigure[cow.pdf][conversion=xxx]
>
> \stoptext
>
> pdftops comes with xpdf (also in minimals)
>
> if needed I can add a standard converter for it
>
> Hans
>
>
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