[XeTeX] xdv2pdf vs xdvipdfmx

[Jjgod Jiang]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Oleg Parashchenko <olpa at uucode.com> wrote:
> My use case is an application of Quartz filters. A document has a lot of
> images (PDF format, some text plus 1200dpi photos). The generated PDF is
> of 300 Mb. If I apply the Quartz filter "Reduce File Size" to rescale
> bitmaps to 300dpi, the size is less then 10Mb.
>
> With xdv2pdf I could apply the filter during PDF generation and
> immediately get 10 Mb PDF. With xdvipdfmx, I have to generate 300Mb first,
> and then re-filter the PDF. Probably it is not a problem, but it somehow
> bothers me.

I guess we can probably modify xdvipdfmx to pipe the output stream directly
to that Quartz Filter without writing it all on the disk first. Just an idea,
I'm not sure how does this filter works.

- Jiang