[pdftex] Speeding up PDFLaTeX by skipping file inclusion

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:42:34PM -0500, Kevin wrote:

> [...] One thing I've noticed is that
> PDFLaTeX reads over my figures twice.

> PDFLaTeX: pdflatex -> bibtex -> pdflatex

Not meantioned in the thread so far: you can try a smaller
compression factor (\pdfcompresslevel=0 or \pdfcompresslevel=1)
for the runs except the final one.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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