Re: music-font-encodings option

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Le dimanche 02 avril 2023 à 18:20 +0000, Werner LEMBERG a écrit :
>> Essentially, this option switches between the `show` and `glyphshow`
>> PostScript operators to access Emmentaler glyphs.  The former is
>> considered the 'standard' method for accessing glyphs in a PS file
>> (according to the GS developers); however, it needs properly set up
>> encoding vectors (which can't exceed a size of 256 glyphs each).  The
>> latter is slower, AFAIK, and apparently not as well supported with GS
>> (at least, we filed some bug reports, IIRC).
>
> Thanks, that helps. However, I still don't understand what impact on
> size this makes. Do the two result in different PDF primitives?

I seem to remember that the second variant allowed Ghostscript to merge
subsetted fonts from included separate files.

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David Kastrup