Re: .ps and .pdf filesize

[Mats Bengtsson]

See the section on "Point and Click" in the manual.

  /Mats

Michael Murphy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to LP, but I'm running version 2.10.7 under Cygwin on a Windows XP
> machine. I obtained the build through the cygwin setup.exe from a mirrors 
> server.
>
> I have a file that outputs as five pages of music with a piano staff and lyrics.
> However, the filesize comes out in .ps at 1MB and in .pdf at ~900kB. I am
> wondering if there is a satisfactory way to reduce this filesize. I noticed
> there are no command-line arguments that accomplish this. Should I install a TeX
> system, get DVI output and then dvips -> ps2pdf it myself? Or would I achieve
> better results using the Windows version available from the website? 
>
>
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