On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:54 PM, 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.
Thanks in advance for the help.
surface.mps 456543 bytes surface.pdf 455544 bytes context mkiv "include" surface.mps (include is not not the exact term); open surface.pdf with and editor and compare with surface.mps. epstopdf compress surface.eps, and if you bzip2 surface.eps you will have almost the same size. -- luigi