Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 4251 in lilypond: Enhancement: Reduce size of PDF files when included in *TeX documents

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Comment #5 on issue 4251 by address@hidden: Enhancement: Reduce size of  
PDF files when included in *TeX documents
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4251

On 09/01/15 11:23, Knut Petersen wrote:> Hi James!

> Attached is a small *.tex document that can be translated by xelatex or
> lualatex,
> one page including four small snippets.

> It demonstrates that also small documents with only a few snippets
> benefit from
> the --bigpdf patch. lualatex must be called with the --shell-escape
> parameter to
> allow it to execute lilypond and pdfcrop (obviously that needs to be
> installed).

> Be aware of the fact that translation will also generate (or overwrite
> !) some aux
> files named tmplilytail.ly, tmplilyhead.ly, tmplilypaper.ly, tmplily.ly,
> tmplilyfrag1.pdf,
> tmplilyfrag3.pdf, tmplilyfrag2.pdf, tmplilyfrag4.pdf.

> Edit line 22 to contain the path to your lilypond test executable (dont
> delete the
> space after lilypond) and line 23 to either contain nothing or --bigpdf.

> Then translate test.tex to pdf with

>     lualatex --shell-escape test
>     gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o testtmp.pdf test.pdf
>     pdfsizeopt.py --use-multivalent=no testtmp.pdf testfinal.pdf
>     dir test*pdf --sort=time | tac

> With  line 23 "\def\lilyparms{  }" I get

> -rw-r--r-- 1 knut users   173538  9. Jan 11:53 test.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 knut users   157303  9. Jan 11:53 testtmp.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 knut users   149945  9. Jan 11:53 testfinal.pdf

> With line 23 "\def\lilyparms{ --bigpdf }" I get

> -rw-r--r-- 1 knut users   879441  9. Jan 11:55 test.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 knut users    63359  9. Jan 11:55 testtmp.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 knut users    59437  9. Jan 11:55 testfinal.pdf

> cu,
>   Knut

Attachments:
        test.tex  6.5 KB

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