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name of package respresents only half of the possibilities #16

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hpvd opened this issue Aug 4, 2021 · 2 comments
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name of package respresents only half of the possibilities #16

hpvd opened this issue Aug 4, 2021 · 2 comments

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@hpvd
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hpvd commented Aug 4, 2021

Since the package do a lot more than caching (it reduce filesize of final pdf)
it is a bit of a pity that the name represents only half of the possibilities

To attracted even more users and make it better/easier to find, maybe one should think about rethinking the name (your package is is still young / seems to be relatively new on dante :-)

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xqms commented Aug 4, 2021

Well, it started out as a way to make compilation of larger documents a lot faster, that's why it's named graphicscache. The DPI scaling options came a lot later.

What do you think would be a better name?

(All in all I think the name is not that critical... A lot of the popular LaTeX packages have really strange names :D)

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hpvd commented Aug 4, 2021

sure there are packages with strange names ;D

just to look at it from another perspective:
If you really decide to make it possible to use external tools to optimize the images further in a hq way (like discussed in #15)

maybe it can make sense to split the functions to 2 packages:

  • one doing the caching part keeping the name "graphicscache" and
  • a second package depending on "graphicscache" but extending it with the image optimizing function, which could be named something with "optimization" or "size" in it...

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