Re: [NTG-context] Was: Opening external documents ... -> Can ConTeXt reduce size of images?

2013-01-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/9/2013 12:34 AM, Martin Schröder wrote: 2013/1/8 Hans Hagen : it's even worse ... all kind of color and other data is present is such a file .. the pstopdf.rb script (comes with mkii) gets rid of some of that We could reduce some of that during pdf inclusion (or use the new build-in pdf l

Re: [NTG-context] Was: Opening external documents ... -> Can ConTeXt reduce size of images?

2013-01-08 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–01–09 Hans Hagen wrote: > the latest beta has this: > > % \enabletrackers[graphics.programs] > > \starttext > > \externalfigure[cow.pdf][conversion=stripped] > > \stoptext Nice feature, indeed. It might save a preprocessing step. We preprocess with -dProcessDSCComments=false o

Re: [NTG-context] Was: Opening external documents ... -> Can ConTeXt reduce size of images?

2013-01-08 Thread Martin Schröder
2013/1/8 Hans Hagen : > it's even worse ... all kind of color and other data is present is such a > file .. the pstopdf.rb script (comes with mkii) gets rid of some of that We could reduce some of that during pdf inclusion (or use the new build-in pdf library). Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Was: Opening external documents ... -> Can ConTeXt reduce size of images?

2013-01-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/9/2013 12:04 AM, Matthias Weber wrote: Thanks Hans, I'll give this a try when I am in a daring mood and less busy. the latest beta has this: % \enabletrackers[graphics.programs] \starttext \externalfigure[cow.pdf][conversion=stripped] \stoptext Of course I cannot guarantee that t

Re: [NTG-context] Was: Opening external documents ... -> Can ConTeXt reduce size of images?

2013-01-08 Thread Matthias Weber
Thanks Hans, I'll give this a try when I am in a daring mood and less busy. Matthias On Jan 7, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 1/8/2013 1:00 AM, Matthias Weber wrote: > >> So, this clearly is not a ConTeXt problem. But it causes me major >> headaches. In my workflow, I have dozens

Re: [NTG-context] Was: Opening external documents ... -> Can ConTeXt reduce size of images?

2013-01-07 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/8/2013 1:00 AM, Matthias Weber wrote: So, this clearly is not a ConTeXt problem. But it causes me major headaches. In my workflow, I have dozens of images that I prepare with Adobe Illustrator and save as pdf files that are still editable with Illustrator, i.e. that include another copy

Re: [NTG-context] Was: Opening external documents ... -> Can ConTeXt reduce size of images?

2013-01-07 Thread Matthias Weber
Thanks Wolfgang - I believed that the question was easy enough as is, but that was of course short sighted. The problem I described does not arise when one just typesets the file, everything is good. What I did was to reduce its file size using OS X's preview. This has apparently been "improve