Re: [PATCH] Reduce size of *TeX generated pdfs, Version 2

[Knut Petersen]

Hi James!

Attached is a small *.tex document that can be translated by xelatex or 
lualatex,
one page including four small snippets.

It demonstrates that also small documents with only a few snippets benefit from
the --bigpdf patch. lualatex must be called with the --shell-escape parameter to
allow it to execute lilypond and pdfcrop (obviously that needs to be installed).

Be aware of the fact that translation will also generate (or overwrite !) some 
aux
files named tmplilytail.ly, tmplilyhead.ly, tmplilypaper.ly, tmplily.ly, 
tmplilyfrag1.pdf,
tmplilyfrag3.pdf, tmplilyfrag2.pdf, tmplilyfrag4.pdf.

Edit line 22 to contain the path to your lilypond test executable (dont delete 
the
space after lilypond) and line 23 to either contain nothing or --bigpdf.

Then translate test.tex to pdf with

   lualatex --shell-escape test
   gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o testtmp.pdf test.pdf
   pdfsizeopt.py --use-multivalent=no testtmp.pdf testfinal.pdf
   dir test*pdf --sort=time | tac

With  line 23 "\def\lilyparms{  }" I get

-rw-r--r-- 1 knut users   173538  9. Jan 11:53 test.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 knut users   157303  9. Jan 11:53 testtmp.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 knut users   149945  9. Jan 11:53 testfinal.pdf

With line 23 "\def\lilyparms{ --bigpdf }" I get

-rw-r--r-- 1 knut users   879441  9. Jan 11:55 test.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 knut users    63359  9. Jan 11:55 testtmp.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 knut users    59437  9. Jan 11:55 testfinal.pdf

cu,
 Knut

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