Am 06.03.2010 14:54, schrieb Troy Henderson:
I am writing because there appears to be a very large (i.e., approximately a factor of 10) difference in filesizes of the same MetaPost graphic generated in the following 2 ways
(1) Including a common MetaPost source "common.mp" into a minimal MKIV document and compiling with `context surface.tex` (2) Including the same "common.mp" into a minimal MetaPost source file and compiling with `mpost surface.mp` followed by a `epstopdf surface.mps`.
In case (1), the resulting PDF is about 445kB whereas in case (2) the resulting PDF is about 45kB. I've attached the "surface.tex", "surface.mp", and "common.mp" for those that wish to test this and help determine why ConTeXt's output is so much larger than MetaPost+epstopdf.
mh, not here. the mkiv produced pdf (1) has exactly 60382 bytes. MTXrun | current version: 2010.03.02 12:34 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.51.0-2010030215 (rev 3445) Peter