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The full, portable version is about ~~500MB according to [this post](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/112734/is-is-possible-to-install-only-the-required-latex-tool-pdflatex-in-ubuntu)~~ 4.6GB.\r\n\r\nThis is a problem since Lambda limits the size of the zip file you can upload to [250MB unzipped](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html).\r\n\r\nHowever, `pdflatex` depends on just a subset of the full version.\r\n\r\nTODO:\r\n- [ ] Determine the subset of the full version of TeXLive needed to run `pdflatex`\r\n- [ ] How big is this subset?\r\n- [ ] How can we download and move this subset?\r\n\r\nApproach:\r\n- Research\r\n- Boot up EC2 Amazon Linux instances and test"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jnayak1/pdflatex-lambda/issues/comments/250586739","html_url":"https://github.com/jnayak1/pdflatex-lambda/issues/3#issuecomment-250586739","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jnayak1/pdflatex-lambda/issues/3","id":250586739,"user":{"login":"jnayak1","id":11620890,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11620890?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1","html_url":"https://github.com/jnayak1","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jnayak1/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-09-29T20:48:11Z","updated_at":"2016-09-29T20:48:11Z","body":"\"Another advantage of LuaTeX over XeTeX is that LuaTeX uses the PDF engine of pdfTeX, while XeTeX uses its own one.\"[4](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/126206/why-choose-lualatex-over-xelatex)"}}
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