[pdftex] SVG and pdftex.

[Hans Hagen]

Victor Ivrii wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
>> 2009/11/3 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>:
>>> Is luatex the replacement for pdftex insofar as development is
>>> concerned?
>> IMHO yes.
>>
>> Best
>>    Martin
>>
> 
> As I wrote - running lualatex (and disabling microtype) over a huge
> tex source produced identical result to pdflatex - but pdf file was
> 15.8 MB rather than 14.1
> 
> On the other hand removing
> \pdfminorversion=6
> \pdfobjcompresslevel=3
> \pdfcompresslevel=9
> 
> resulted in pdf (with pdflatex) 20.1MB.
> 
> Why such difference in size between pdflatex and lualatex?

- different font inclusion (subsetting, extra unicode info)
- different page stream (also accuracy issues)
- occasional different organization of objects and resources
- differences in the macro package dealing with pdftex or luatex

to mention a few

Hans


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