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Hans Hagen
Thanh Han The wrote:
dumping an image in pdf mode is rather difficult to get right. If in dvi mode an image is "stored" by a reference to an external file, then I am afraid the speed gain is not that much. There is for sure some comfort by having a dumped file reference in the format, but again that can be also achieved for pdf mode using some macros IMHO.
to me it looks like a rather useless option to include an image in a format, just as we don't embed type 1 fonts in the format either so let's not waste energy on it
You know that you just said "To me it looks like a rather useless option to include an image in a \savebox in the LaTeX preamble", or "To me it looks like a rather useless option to support preview-latex in PDF mode even for people who use \savebox with images in their preamble"?
also, those who generate a format should know what they're doing/dealing with
David knows, but preview-latex just takes the LaTeX preamble which its users have written. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)