Dear Jonathan,<div>please, find attached to this message the source files I use (they are not copyrighted for now, and however they are in Italian).</div><div>A.K.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/9/13, Jonathan Kew <
<a href="mailto:jonathan_kew@sil.org">jonathan_kew@sil.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 13 Sep 2007, at 10:08 am, jadolov k wrote:
<br><br>> Hi to everybody<br>> I have just a little (may be, rhetorical) question: why is xetex so<br>> slow (compared to latex etc)? Especially when I use the SmallCaps<br>> feature via fontspec. pdfLaTeX compiles a 100 pages document in a
<br>> second, while for my xetex installation it takes a second for every<br>> page...<br><br>I don't know why using the SmallCaps feature should make a<br>significant difference; does this apply to all fonts, or is it
<br>related to a particular one?<br><br>Which platform are you using? If you're on Mac OS X, you can probably<br>get a major speed-up by running xetex with the xdvipdfmx output<br>driver instead of the default xdv2pdf. To do that, use the -output-
<br>driver option, from the command line or via a TeXShop engine or other<br>script (depending on your working environment); details have been<br>discussed on the list in the past.<br><br>(If you're on another platform, this isn't a factor as there's only
<br>the one driver available.)<br><br>While xetex is often a bit slower than pdftex, the difference<br>shouldn't normally be anywhere near what you describe, so I'm<br>wondering if something is odd about your installation. Could you
<br>provide a .log file so we can see what packages, etc., are being<br>used? Do you have a reasonably portable test document (not relying on<br>lots of proprietary fonts, etc, and obviously not confidential!) that<br>you could share, so I could try it here for comparison?
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