On 2/1/07, Jeong Dalyoung wrote:
Dear all,
Recently I updated TeXlive and ConTeXt. After that the compiling time of a file under ConTeXt+XeTeX became longer than before. However, there is no change when I compiled the files using ConTeXt.
I tested the same file using the previous ConTeXt version in the another Mac and found that there was no delay. The big difference between them as follows:
1. part of log file under new version ..... (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) )
stdin -> speedtest.pdf [1] 8949 bytes written Output written on speedtest.pdf (1 page). Transcript written on speedtest.log. TeXUtil | parsing file speedtest.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts : 169 TeXUtil | expansions: 308 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 1 TeXUtil | temporary files: 0 TeXUtil | commands: 25 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved TeXExec | runtime: 47.741367 In another Mac installed the previous version, "speedtest.xdv -> speedtest.pdf" instead "stdin -> speedtest.pdf" I don't know why two machines made pdf files in different ways, but I assume that "stdin -> speedtest.pdf" is the cause of the delay. My powerbook is 1.33GHz PowerPC G4.
If you have someone to blame, please blame me. I asked Hans if he could add an additional switch -output-driver="xdvipdfmx" when running XeTeX. This means that the files are now converted to pdf with xdvipdfmx instead of xdv2pdf. Without that switch one cannot use otf fonts that reside in the texmf tree. That change has happened in the middle of January, so any older ConTeXt probably still runs with xdv2pdf. People on the XeTeX mailing list often ask how to run xelatex with -output-driver="xdvipdfmx" switch from emacs etc. I hope that ConTeXt will soon use OpenType LM as the default font, so particularly for that reason, I doubt that switching back to xdv2pdf makes sense. How long is the time delay if you compare the two? If you want to change it on your own computer, find this line in tex.rb and remove the option which sets a different output driver: @@runoptions['xetex'] = [...,'-output-driver="xdvipdfmx ..."'] Mojca