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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label repeatgrf</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Repeated graphics in a document</h3>
-<p/>A logo or &#8220;watermark&#8221; image, or any other image that is repeated in
-your document, has the potential to make the processed version of the
-document unmanageably large. The problem is, that the default
-mechanisms of graphics usage add the image at every point it&#8217;s to be
-used, and when processed, the image appears in the output file at each
-such point.
-<p/>Huge PostScript files are embarrassing; explaining <em>why</em> such a file
-is huge, is more embarrassing still.
-<p/>The <a href="FAQ-tutbitslatex.html"><i>epslatex</i> graphics tutorial</a>
-describes a technique for avoiding the problem: basically, one
-converts the image that&#8217;s to be repeated into a PostScript subroutine, and
-load that as a <i>dvips</i> prologue file. In place of the image,
-you load a file (with the same bounding box as the image) containing
-no more than an invocation of the subroutine defined in the prologue.
-<p/>The <i>epslatex</i> technique is tricky, but does the job. Trickier
-still is the neat scheme of converting the figure to a one-character
-Adobe Type 3 outline font. While this technique is for the &#8220;real
-experts&#8221; only (the author of this answer has never even tried it), it has
-potential for the same sort of space saving as the <i>epslatex</i>
-technique, with greater flexibility in actual use.
-<p/>More practical is Hendri Adriaens&#8217; <i>graphicx-psmin</i>; you load
-this <em>in place</em> of <i>graphicx</i>, so rather than:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\usepackage[&#60;options&#62;]{graphicx}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-you will write:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\usepackage[&#60;options&#62;]{graphicx-psmin}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-and at the start of your document, you write:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-\loadgraphics[&#60;bb&#62;]{&#60;list of graphics&#62;}
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-and each of the graphics in the list is converted to an &#8220;object&#8221; for
-use within the resulting PostScript output. (This is, in essence, an
-automated version of the <i>epslatex</i> technique described above.)
-<p/>Having loaded the package as above, whenever you use
-<code>\</code><code>includegraphics</code>, the command checks if the file you&#8217;ve asked for
-is one of the graphics in <code>\</code><code>loadgraphics</code>&#8217; list. If so, the
-operation is converted into a call to the &#8220;object&#8221; rather than a new
-copy of the file; the resulting PostScript can of course be <em>much</em> smaller.
-<p/>Note that the package requires a recent <i>dvips</i>, version
-5.95b (this version isn&#8217;t &#8212; yet &#8212; widely distributed).
-<p/>If your PostScript is destined for conversion to PDF, either by a
-<i>ghostscript</i>-based mechanism such as <i>ps2pdf</i> or by
-(for example) <i>Acrobat</i> <i>Distiller</i>, the issue isn&#8217;t
-so pressing, since the distillation mechanism will amalgamate graphics
-objects whether or not the PostScript has them amalgamated. PDFTeX does
-the same job with graphics, automatically converting multiple uses
-into references to graphics objects.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>graphicx-psmin.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin.zip">macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/graphicx-psmin.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=repeatgrf">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=repeatgrf</a>
-</body>