[pdftex] Multiple references to image fails.

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 14 June 2008 04:17:01 am Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:10:31AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> > Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
>
> No, the comparison with ConTeXt was made by John Culleton:
> > >> yields 21178 bytes, and takes 21 seconds to run.  It appears
> > >> that this is just 15,680 of fixed overhead.  If I add some
> > >> text the overhead grows to 16,197, not a big increase.
> >
> > The size difference is caused almost completely by the latin
> > modern fonts, these do not subset neraly as well as computer
> > modern. You could search the mail archive for discussions about
> > this.
>
> Again, with latin modern, the "Hello, World." example shows no
> difference between plain-TeX and LaTeX:
>
> \ifx\documentclass\undefined
>   \def\pre{
>     \nopagenumbers
>     \font\tenrm=ec-lmr10
>     \tenrm
>   }
>   \def\post{
>     \csname bye\endcsname
>   }
> \else
>   \def\pre{
>     \documentclass{minimal}
>     \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>     \usepackage{lmodern}
>     \pagestyle{empty}
>     \begin{document}
>   }
>   \def\post{
>     \end{document}
>   }
> \fi
> \pre
> Hello, World.
> \post
>
> pdftex:   23946 bytes
> pdflatex: 23946 bytes
>
> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>

I learn something every day. Thanks gentlemen.

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