Re: [Devel] PDF Font embedding

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 11:18 AM 3/21/2004, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > Also, dvipdfmx is very TrueType/OpenType centric, and so I would
> > look elsewhere for Type1 subsetting.  For example, pdfTeX has some
> > nice T1 subsetting (though less than steller TTF/OTF support).
>
> AFAIK, the current development version of dvipdfmx if *far* superior
> to pdfTeX w.r.t. font embedding.

        TTF/OTF - no question!

        However, for Type 1, the pdfTeX subsetter produces smaller output...


> It can handle subsetting of both
> Type 1, CFF, and CID-keyed fonts; everything is converted to CFF.

        Oh really?  I hadn't see that in the last set of sources I 
reviewed (couldn't find any actual change notes)...Thanks.


> For documents with CJK fonts, dvipdfmx usually creates files which are up
> to *ten* times smaller compared to pdfTeX!

        Yes, no question!!


Leonard

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