CTAN update: graphicscache
Date: December 21, 2022 5:43:48 PM CET
Max Schwarz submitted an update to the
graphicscache
package.
Version: 0.4 2022-12-20
License: bsd3
Summary description: Cache includegraphics calls
Announcement text:
This version of graphicscache * improves Windows support through more robust detection of ghostscript * is more robust against catcode changes of required special characters
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/graphicscache The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/graphicscache/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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This version of graphicscache * improves Windows support through more robust detection of ghostscript * is more robust against catcode changes of required special characters
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/graphicscache The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/graphicscache/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
graphicscache – Cache includegraphics calls
This LaTeX package provides caching of \includegraphics calls, with several useful effects:
- Recompilations are much faster (10x speedup observed).
-
Images can be postprocessed with ghostscript
before inclusion, thus:
- Automatic downscaling to specified DPI
- Automatic JPEG compression with configurable quality
- Much smaller files (e.g. 10MB instead of 150MB)!
Note: Due to the one-by-one invocation of pdflatex and ghostscript for each graphics element, the first compilation is typically slower than usual.
Note: graphicscache needs the \write18 call (also called shell escape). This is a security risk if you have untrusted TeX sources.
graphicscache supports pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX; XeLaTeX is not supported.
| Package | graphicscache |
| Version | 0.4 2022-12-20 |
| Copyright | 2018–2021 Max Schwarz |
| Maintainer | Max Schwarz |