On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > How about saving each such graphic in a \box, and then just using \copy to > place it wherever needed? I'd expect that to give a pretty big win, if the > same graphics are used many times.
Excellent point. The last time I was looking at this, xetex had to query the file to get measurement information, even when re-using, which has a lot of overhead, esp. if the file is on a server. I wondered actually, if it would be possible to replace a graphic during the run and have the new graphic used.... Interestingly, the elapsed time seems about right given my report of a similar project on the xetex mailing list: On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:18 AM, I wrote: > ... the > typesetting end went perfectly. Best of all, since XeTeX includes a > graphic only once, referring to it w/ subsequent uses, the file sizes > were quite manageable (We guesstimated a couple of terabytes otherwise). > > 1,581 records. It did take about an hour and a half to typeset the > cards proper on my 2.5GHz G5 though (3,162 pages, each of which had a > multi-megabyte graphic and every other one had a bitmap signature > graphic). William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
