Package: lmodern
Version: 1.010x-3
Severity: wishlist
PDF files generated using lmodern are much larger than the ones
generated using CM (via aeguill). For instance, 260333 bytes with
CM, and 469516 bytes with LM, for the same quality! LM should be
improved to get file sizes comparable to CM.
The following script can be used to show the difference on simple
examples.
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#!/bin/sh
# Comparison of the lengths of PDF files using CM fonts and LM fonts.
set -e
prefix="cmpfonts-$$"
getsize()
{
pkg="$1"
shift
cat > ${prefix}.tex <<EOF
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{$pkg}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
$@
\end{document}
EOF
pdflatex ${prefix}.tex > /dev/null
stat -c %s ${prefix}.pdf
rm ${prefix}.*
}
cm=$(getsize aeguill "$@")
lm=$(getsize lmodern "$@")
printf "%6d %6d %s\n" $cm $lm "$*"
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Here are a few examples:
$ for i in A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q ACDE AL LP; ./cmp-cmlm $i
3179 15922 A
3609 21793 B
3167 16484 C
3155 15972 D
3167 15592 E
3168 20367 F
3660 15756 G
3214 15535 H
3126 16303 I
3150 21196 J
3240 15580 K
3128 22096 L
3211 15497 M
3175 15664 N
3130 17331 O
3159 21973 P
3249 9658 Q
3682 17016 ACDE
3369 22358 AL
3310 22385 LP
The first column gives the file sizes when using CM, the second column
gives the file sizes when using LM.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lmodern depends on:
ii defoma 0.11.10-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii tex-common 1.7 Common infrastructure for using an
ii xfonts-utils 1:1.0.1-1 X Window System font utility progr
lmodern recommends no packages.
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