[pdftex] PDF File Size

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-06-07 at 00:01:57 -0400, Victor Ivrii wrote:

 > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
 > > On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 23:49 -0400, Victor Ivrii wrote:
 > >> \pdfminorversion=6
 > >> \pdfobjcompresslevel=3
 > >> \pdfcompresslevel=9
 > >> \documentclass[]{}
 > >
 > > Thanks Victor, but where should that go? I tried inserting it after the
 > > opening "\input texinfo.tex" line, but I got the following error:
 > 
 > On the top of the source file !!! Not in command line

Hi,
the first error message (Use of \ doesn't match its definition) was
caused by texinfo.tex itself.  texinfo is using '@' instead of '\' as
an escape character with \catcode 0.  The correct syntax _after_
\input texinfo.tex would be @pdfminorversion=6.

In order to use object stream compression, it's sufficient to set
\pdfminorversion=5.  As of TeX Live 2010, these settings are the
default: 

 \pdfminorversion=5
 \pdfobjcompresslevel=2
 \pdfcompresslevel=9

They don't depend on a particular pdftex release, they are set in the
config file (pdftexconfig.tex).  Thus, you can also adapt the config
file of a former TeX Live release or MiKTeX accordingly.  The format
files have to be re-created after the change.

Smaller files can be obtained when using XeTeX or LuaTeX with Latin
Modern OpenType fonts instead of Computer Modern.  But this requires
changes in texinfo.tex.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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