Re: size of pdf files

[Knut Petersen]

On 15.12.2014 14:21, Knut Petersen wrote:
> Well, I did some very ugly things to a few postscript / low level scm files 
> this morning.
> Nothing for release, only a proof of concept. These are the results from a 
> luatex test
> page including four small lilypond snippets:

Update:

I generalized my test patch so that a full 2.18.2 test build succeeded. Some 
numbers:

Install directory:
==========================
du -sh lilypond_2.18.2orig: 849M
du -sh lilypond_2.18.2test  713M

Some file sizes:

old  /  new size Filename
=============================================
260K    96K     /Documentation/changes.es.pdf
256K    92K     /Documentation/changes.it.pdf
256K    92K     /Documentation/changes.pdf
928K    1,5M    /Documentation/contributor.pdf
1,6M    1,4M    /Documentation/essay.de.pdf
1,6M    1,4M    /Documentation/essay.es.pdf
1,5M    1,1M    /Documentation/essay.fr.pdf
1,6M    1,3M    /Documentation/essay.pdf
432K    364K    /Documentation/extending.de.pdf
432K    372K    /Documentation/extending.es.pdf
464K    388K    /Documentation/extending.fr.pdf
420K    348K    /Documentation/extending.pdf
2,0M    4,1M    /Documentation/internals.pdf
3,4M    1,6M    /Documentation/learning.de.pdf
3,5M    1,7M    /Documentation/learning.es.pdf
3,5M    1,6M    /Documentation/learning.fr.pdf
1,5M    740K    /Documentation/learning.hu.pdf
3,4M    1,6M    /Documentation/learning.it.pdf
3,3M    1,5M    /Documentation/learning.nl.pdf
3,4M    1,6M    /Documentation/learning.pdf
1,2M    632K    /Documentation/music-glossary.pdf
26M     5,9M    /Documentation/notation.de.pdf
27M     6,1M    /Documentation/notation.es.pdf
27M     6,0M    /Documentation/notation.fr.pdf
26M     5,9M    /Documentation/notation.it.pdf
26M     5,8M    /Documentation/notation.pdf
8,9M    2,5M    /Documentation/snippets.pdf
552K    484K    /Documentation/usage.de.pdf
556K    484K    /Documentation/usage.es.pdf
580K    500K    /Documentation/usage.fr.pdf
480K    408K    /Documentation/usage.hu.pdf
552K    468K    /Documentation/usage.it.pdf
532K    444K    /Documentation/usage.pdf
2,5M    2,0M    /Documentation/web.pdf

But there seems to be a bug in ghostscript - okular and acroread do not 
complain, but
pdffonts has a problem with the files generated by ghostscript. That needs 
further investigation.

cu,
 Knut