<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">My book is 606 pages long. It is a single file plus the .ind file and125 pdf illustrations.<div><br></div><div>Here are the packages used:</div><div><br></div><div><div>amsmath</div><div>amsthm</div><div>amsxtra</div><div>\RequirePackage[mathscr]{eucal</div><div>amssymb</div><div>latexsym</div><div>amscd</div><div>graphicx</div><div>color</div><div>mdwlist</div><div>chngcntr</div><div>color</div><div>booktabs</div><div>\usepackage{url</div><div>fixltx2e</div><div>verbatim</div><div>enumerate</div><div>xspace</div></div><div><br></div><div>Typeset time as reported by "time":</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">real</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">0m2.595s</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">user</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">0m2.527s</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">sys</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">0m0.063s</span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">that is, 3 secs. pdf file is 4.4 MB.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Now if I use the microtype package( the book is now 3 pages shorter):</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; ">real<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>0m35.443s</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; ">user<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>0m35.155s</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-size: 14px; ">sys<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>0m0.115s</div><div><br></div></span></div><div>typesetting is over 35 secs. pdf file is 4.6 MB.</div><div><br></div><div>My iMac has 8GB memory; the whole ms with illustrations is </div><div>tiny in comparison: about 40 MB.</div><div><br></div><div>Anything I could do to speed up this typesetting?</div><div><br></div><div>GG</div></body></html>