[tex-live] PDF 1.5 by default in TL 2010

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Tue Jan 12 08:10:21 CET 2010


On 12/01/2010 06:29, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> In my experiments
>
> 	\pdfminorversion=5
> 	\pdfobjcompresslevel=1
>
> got me a 10% smaller PDF file with tl2009. The other option had no
> effect on my theses.
>
> Martin

It very much depends on how much linking is going on in your file. No 
hyperref and no links => very little (if any) saving. Lots of links (for 
example, a hyperrlinked code index in a typeset DTX) => potentially 
large savings.
-- 
Joseph Wright


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