I am typesetting a general report on my research for my group. I have typeset it using LaTeX, generated all the pictures, figures, tables, drawings, etc using LaTeX packages.
However, when I run it on my TeXLive system, it seems the run time is a little too long. I tried to solve all the warnings I reviewing the report text file of my report. Run time is a little better but I still think it is heavy and the whole run (pdfLaTeX + BibTeX + pdfLaTeX + pdfLaTeX) seems to be a little slow.
I know that this may be dependent on the computer configuration or the packages and content of my file. Of course a book with number of pages may be more time demanding than a simple paper.
I want to hear about your systematic procedures which you use to decrease the load of the file you produce.
Could you please share your best practices optimizing your TeX/LaTeX files?
