Re: Smaller PDF, shrinking away largeness

[Thomas Scharkowski]

Lilypond 2.4.6 on cygwin produces a 26 KB pdf.

Thomas

> This has been added as
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=519
> 
> but we really need more information.  The gap between 1.9.8 and 2.10
> is huge, so no further action will be taken unless somebody narrows
> down the version.  At the very least, we need to know the stable
> version that began the larger files (ie an even X in 2.X.0).
> 
> The TeX system shouldn't affect how lilypond behaves... at least for
> modern versions (2.0 and higher?  2.2 and higher?)
> 
> - Graham
> 
> Laura Conrad wrote:
> >>>>>> "Graham" == Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> >     Graham> Sean Gugler wrote:
> >     >> >> PDF files seem larger than necessary, is there something I
> >     >> >> can do to shrink them?  Besides setting 'point-and-click
> >     >> >> false, which I've already done.
> > 
> > I replied:
> > 
> >     >> I think it should be considered a bug on some level, maybe an
> >     >> enhancement request.
> > 
> >     Graham> Then file a bug.  Input file, the exact commands used to
> >     compile it, Graham> and output on 2.11.35 and on whatever
> >     earlier version you're comparing Graham> it to.
> > 
> > OK, here's twinkle-pop.ly on 2.0:
> > Input:
> > 
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> > 
> > Output:
> > 
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> > 
> > 
> > Notice that the size is 25370.  I can't run this version of lilypond
> > any more on a modern ubuntu system, because of the TeX version
> > changes, but I believe all I said was "lilypond twinkle-pop.ly".  
> > 
> > Here it is on 2.10.33:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----
> > 
> > 
> > Here the size is 60139, more than twice as big.  And there are files
> > that have much bigger differences than this.
> > 
> > I believe the size difference had actually happened before 2.8.  
> > 
> 
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