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[Steve Litt]

Rich Shepard said on Wed, 8 Dec 2021 07:51:56 -0800 (PST)

>On Wed, 8 Dec 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:

>> For my big handbook (which takes 110 seconds to compile (70 on the
>> M1)) I have split this into child documents which compile
>> individually within 10 to 15 seconds.  
>
>How about loading a PDF image that's 3,704,503 bytes in size while
>reading your big handbook?

OK, 3,704,503 bytes got my attention. No wonder it's slow.

There are ways to shrink PDF size:

Web search: linux shrink pdf size

SteveT

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