On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:10 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This reminds me that this brought up another interesting question. > Why are the pdfs I generate sometimes significantly smaller than the > sws files? In general I would have thought that the various images > etc. and formatting would make the pdfs bloat, but the sws would be a > nice tight text file - which of course it is not. > > What make .sws files so doggone huge (relatively speaking)? Do they > contain all the computations? That would certainly do it. But even > after I delete all output, the sws files are still fairly large. I'm > not doing anything weird, either - this even happens with ordinary non- > plotting, non-interact commands. I can make a small one by doing > 2+2. Could it be the formatting of the text from TinyMCE?
Maybe they contain the revision history? That could make them big. Could you post an example sws file that is huge? > > Anyways, just curious. But they do take a while to upload to our > classroom management server sometimes. > > - kcrisman > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
