[OS X TeX] Yet Another Version of Pdftricks.sty
Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com
Sat Feb 5 15:53:24 CET 2005
On 2/5/05 8:29 AM, "Herb Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/05 5:09 AM, "Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>
>>
>> Why is it faster? I thought altpdflatex is just a glorified
>> latex->dvips->ps2pdf sequence.
>
> Howdy,
>
> Actually I was using pstopdf (Apple's version), not ps2pdf or, as
> altpdflatex does, ps2pdf13 (both Ghostscript's version). Maybe that should
> speed things up quite a bit.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
Howdy,
As yet another adendum
time pstopdf test-fig1.ps
produced
real 3.11s
usr 1.22s
sys 0.59s
while
time ps2pdf13 test-fig1.ps
produced
real 1.315s
usr 0.930s
sys 0.250s
a fairly dramatic difference on a fairly simple graphic, the first figure
from the test.tex file that comes with the pdftricks package. If I don't use
altpdflatex I should at least use ps2pdf13 from Ghostscript.
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)
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