Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.22 Release Candidate 1

[Karlin High]

On 9/19/2017 11:25 AM, Ken Sharp wrote:
> not disabling subsetting when creating the PDF files would make some 
> savings, probably quite signifcant, but I can't tell without seeing 
> some examples of the PDF files in question.

If it helps, here are some example PDF files. I believe this discussion 
began from them.

Gotlandstoner, a collection of about 500 traditional fiddle tunes from 
Gotland, Sweden.
https://github.com/erikronstrom/gotlandstoner/releases/download/v1.0/214-416.pdf
 
(9.49 MB)
https://github.com/erikronstrom/gotlandstoner/releases/download/v1.0/417-727.pdf
 
(13.01 MB)

If the files from those links have sizes smaller than they are noted 
here, that means they have been reproduced with a more-optimized process 
since this discussion started.

For more info about the files, a link to their source code, and a 
description of their production process:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-08/msg00399.html

For a report on effects of de-duplicating the fonts:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-09/msg00034.html
"I get the following results with ghostscript 9.06:
bok2: Original size 9.996.691 bytes, optimized size 2.043.380 bytes
bok3: Original size 13.706.324 bytes, optimized size 2.447.232 bytes"
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA