Re: [NTG-context] output file size with repeated image

14 Apr 2015


      On 4/14/2015 7:07 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
...
Dear list,
I have the following sample:
\setupexternalfigure[location=default]
     \starttext
     \startmode[repeated-image]
     \dorecurse{10}{
         \dorecurse{10}{
             \dorecurse{10}{
                 \externalfigure[cow]\input zapf\par}}}
     \stopmode
     \startmode[single-image]
     \externalfigure[cow]
     \dorecurse{10}{
         \dorecurse{10}{
             \dorecurse{10}{
                 \input zapf\par}}}
     \stopmode
     \startmode[no-image]
     \dorecurse{10}{
         \dorecurse{10}{
             \dorecurse{10}{
                 \input zapf\par}}}
     \stopmode
     \stoptext
Output file sizes with different modes are the following:
--mode=repeated-image    745KB
--mode=single-image      303KB
--mode=no-image          302KB
Although the image is the same (and it is only embedded once) file size
with repeated image is almost two and a half times that the version with
a single image.
Is this right or am I missing something?
(1) each reference to an image takes some 40 bytes (uncompressed)
(2) when you include the image n times you get 3 times as many pages 
which means 400 more page descriptions etc, so you need to add 2 times 
no image minus font overhead which is about what you see

context does some aggressive object sharing anyway so on the average the 
pdf files produced are quite efficient

Hans

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