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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------