[texhax] 365 KB .tex file makes 5.95GB .pdf

[William Adams]

On Oct 29, 2014, at 1:39 PM, William F Hammond wrote:

> ImageMagick's "identify" will provide the pixel size of an image.
> 
> I never understood if there is a definitive way to go from there
> to, say, basis points, but in a given context I simply experiment
> with a single example to find a conversion factor.

Which would be fine if they were all pixel images of a known ppi/resolution.

They're not, they're arbitrary .pdfs of ads --- I need to determine the physical / print size and evaluate it.

pdftex and xetex are the only tools which I've found for reliably doing this in a reasonable fashion. Scripting InDesign and Adobe Illustrator is even less fun (and in the case of AI a bit error prone 'cause of how it parses arbitrary .pdfs), using ImageMagick or PhotoShop requires that one rasterize each .pdf to a pixel image which takes a lot of time.

William

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William Adams
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