Re: reducing ps file size (please comment)

[demery]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009, Mark Polesky <address@hidden> said:

 Would reducing ps excess reduce compilation
> time? Or would the difference be negligible?

PS code is not usually compiled, it is transmitted, parsed, and executed. 
Adobes manuals make it clear that the defined operators are deliberatly
given long spelledout names for clarity of semantics and efficient use
would include the use of private suites of operators, even if only to
provide concise aliases for the most used operators.  Several of the early
Macintosh PS-aware applications took advantage of this to some degree,
including the Laserwriter print driver.

One of my projects used Deluxe Music Construction Set as a WYSIWIG front
end to produce EPSF of short musical excerpts for inclusion in a MS Word
produced DMA defense document.  Printing to disk gave me files of PS code
which included several fonts as well as the illustration code.  Original
files were about a megabyte in length, final EPSF was usualy less than a
kilobyte; a good thing because Word had an unadvertised limit (even second
echelon TS didnt know about it) for how much PS code you could have on a
page.
-- 
Dana Emery