26 May
2011
26 May
'11
7:55 p.m.
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:32, mathew
But I just experimentally preconverted all my PNGs to PDF using ImageMagick, and my document dropped from 411k to 98k. The PNGs had previously been optimized with pngnq, so they were only 99k, and are 177k when converted to PDF, so this result is surprising.
Unfortunately, it looks as if it's not as general a result as the "use EPS rather than PDF for SVG" rule. I just tried another document, and that one grew by 90k when I preconverted the PNGs to PDF (again using ImageMagick). So it seems the answer to whether PDF or PNG gives better final document size is to try both and see what happens. Not really ideal. mathew