Re: reducing ps file size (please comment)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Mark Polesky <address@hidden> wrote:
> Short version: I made some changes to output-ps.scm
> that can safely reduce the file size of ps files. In
> a simple experiment, I was able to reduce non-binary
> ps-code by up to 10%. I also don't know if anyone
> cares! (: See the attachment.

The ly:format routine was created as a C++ one because we had
significant memory blowup due to the use of format routines that ran
in Scheme.  You may want to submit a simple patch to make it strip
trailing zeroes from decimals; then you get a simple reduction in file
size.

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