[NTG-pdftex] Re: Slow PNG inclusion with pdfLaTeX

Hartmut, I saw this on c.t.t. Shall I attempt a merge of yours and my patches? Taco Hartmut Henkel wrote:

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I need to put a lot of PNG pictures in a tex document. But including PNGs makes pdfLaTeX to hang a few seconds after including each PNG. This doen't happens with other file types as JPG, PDF, etc.

Is there a way to ommit this delay? Without converting all PNGs to other format?

If you compile from source, maybe check

http://www.circuitwizard.de/pdftex/patch5

which should read much faster, if the PNG files are of the right type. The problem with this rough patch is that it's now getting obsolete as it doesn't (yet) support new transparency features to come.

Regards, Hartmut