Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popin...@supelec.fr> wrote: > I can compile a 20-slide file (no tikz) in less than a second. > Of course, larger slide decks will take longer and I'm sure tikz > requires considerable CPU time, but what do you mean by "huge"? > Also how big a slide deck are you talking about and what percentage > of the slides use tikz? > > About 1500 slides (350 actual frames with overlays) for a 20 hours course. > LuaTeX + opentype fonts makes it even slower. Some complex slides with > animate algorithms (mergesort, ford fulkerson, stuff like that) > Ok, I can split it in lectures (albeit that's not so simple to use > \lectureonly without > breaking toc). I can use the externalize library. Etc. >
Yikes! That's a whole 'nother ballgame. Even if I had something that big, I don't think I could manage it in a single file. Nick