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Old 10-20-2008, 07:26 PM   #34
thomega
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Originally Posted by pthwaite View Post
The file size is an interesting one. I wonder if in the companion software the merge then does a further compression to reduce it again?
I don't think so. Ross' uses Quartz drawing primitives for each line segment that are apparently terribly ineffecient (my acroread takes forever to render them). I build the lines using PDF operators in one piece and append it directly to each page. I can save another factor of two by using PDF transforms and the DR's integer pixel coordinates instead of my already scaled floats that are typically twice as long...
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