> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:25:34 +0100 (MET)
> From: Werner Icking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On ...
> And Acrobat need not to be downloaded? It's of similar size
> for download and bigger if installed and slower if run -
> at least on my system, where I have complete Acrobat and
> not only the Reader.
... I received a private reply (Bcc-ed):
] What you're saying is true, but for printing in a printer that doesn't
] "speak" PS, the best option is Acrobat Reader, because (at least my version
] of it) GsView is slower, and requires a lot of disk space I don't have many
] times.
So I measured a little bit, completely not representative. I used three
files: 1 small page with music, 26 pages string quartet (23 pages with
music), 48 pages parts for this string quartet (33 pages with music).
I measured the size of the files and the time to print:
.ps % .ps.gz % pdfwrite % acrobat %
trio1vl3 47.354 100 20.689 44 45.181 95 56.321 119
137sq 877.622 100 308.298 35 742.131 85 592.044 67
137sqp 1.026.739 100 372.176 36 1.251.385 122 732.705 71
sum 1.951.715 100 701.163 36 2.038.697 104 1.381.070 71
Printing 137sqp.ps using GSView 2.9/6.50 to a HP-Laserjet 4
as FILE took about 53 seconds and produced 6.443.734 bytes of output
Printing 137sqp.acrobat.pdf using Acrobat Reader 4.0 to a HP-Laserjet 4
as FILE took about 188 seconds and produced 6.291.902 bytes of output
My summary: concerning space there is not much difference between
PS (100%) and PDF (70%). If you do not have Acrobat and use
ghostscript's pdfwrite then the sizes are similar. Best result is
gzip.compressed postscript (36%). Printing with Acrobat reader to
a file takes three times longer than with GSView/Ghostscript. Both
produce a similar number of bytes.
-- Werner
PS: if you are interested in the files you can get them from
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/outgoing/icking/ for some days. The basic
files are part of the Music archive.
