[cairo] Size of PDF with lots of images

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 14-01-17 04:20 AM, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> On 17/01/14 06:45, Simon Sapin wrote:
>> On 16/01/2014 19:57, Adrian Johnson wrote:
>>>> If your images were in a format that the PDF backend supports [2] (which
>>>> includes JPEG but not PNG), you could use cairo_surface_set_mime_data()
>>>> to have cairo store the original image data (almost) as-is in PDF,
>>>> without re-compressing. Although I expect that lossy JPEG may not look
>>>> nice for these specific images.
>>> Yes, jpeg images are the most likely reason for the increase in size.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what you mean by "lossy JPEG may not look
>>> nice for these specific images". The jpeg data is stored exactly as
>>> provided to cairo_surface_set_mime_data() so there will be no loss of
>>> image quality.
>>
>> Behdad’s images are PNG here, not JPEG. They are computer-generated with
>> sharp edges, the kind where JPEG does not do well.
>>
> 
> I see two jpegs in his git repo.

Yes, the background image is a 0.5MB JPEG. But the other 13.5MB are PNGs.

Now it occurred to me that I also use a surface cache and that's why the
background image wasn't reembedded 150 times!  I was under the impression that
cairo's being smart...  I still think it should try to be smart by hashing
images and reusing them.

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behdad
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