[cl-typesetting-devel] peculiar behaviour

[Marc Battyani]

Bob Hutchison wrote:

> On Sep 30, 2004, at 6:48 AM, Marc Battyani wrote:
>
> > This should fix it. Tell me if it's OK.
>
> It is much better now. The sizes are not quite the same, but I cannot
> *see* anything different between them.
>
> The creation dates are all different, of course.
>
> The fonts?? are different (there is likely a counter not being reset,
> and this may not matter):

Yes, we want unique identifiers (like gensym)

> More interestingly the the compressed code has differing lengths:
>
> pprint1.pdf has:
>
> << /Filter /FlateDecode
> /Length 3028
>   >>
>
> pprint2.pdf has:
>
> << /Filter /FlateDecode
> /Length 3027
>   >>

> I have no idea if this is significant, for all I know something
> insignificant like the creation date, or I suppose the different font
> numbers, may be in the compressed data and accounts for this
> difference.

Yes, different names and strings will give different compressed sizes.
If you want to see what is in the streams, you can just disable the
compression.

> Anyway, this is is *much* better. It is *so* much easier to see the
> results of my mucking about :-)

Sure :)

Cheers,

Marc