which version of pdftex are you using? IIRC, the recent patch from Harmut (included in 1.40.3) should solve this issue, ie each type1 fontfile should be included only once.
Thanh On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:10:42PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-05-16 13:31:44 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > OTOH I would say that it really doesn't hurt too badly as soon as we > consider real world problems. It is true that for one char documents > this is a bad thing, but as soon as there are a lot of characters > included, the difference should get less severe. Less severe, but still significant, as in practice, many fonts may be included (e.g., because of the different levels of heading, I assume). For instance, on a typical computer-science article: name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- FCHZZX+NimbusSanL-Regu Type 1 yes yes no 6 0 BIQIWQ+NimbusRomNo9L-Regu Type 1 yes yes no 7 0 TLLMPC+NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal Type 1 yes yes no 8 0 NZKSYR+NimbusRomNo9L-Medi Type 1 yes yes no 9 0 HOFHNU+Times-BoldItalic Type 1C yes yes no 14 0 IJUGPW+LMRoman12-Bold Type 1 yes yes no 28 0 JEXNLM+LMRoman12-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 29 0 YLCJDP+LMRoman10-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 30 0 YLCJDP+LMRoman10-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 31 0 BLFSLL+LMRoman10-Bold Type 1 yes yes no 32 0 KFJEKH+LMRoman10-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 33 0 ZJMJPW+LMRoman8-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 42 0 YLCJDP+LMRoman10-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 43 0 XGNKOW+LMRoman6-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 44 0 XMPDUW+LMRoman9-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 45 0 XMPDUW+LMRoman9-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 46 0 LBHWLJ+LMMathItalic10-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 50 0 DPOLVU+LMMathSymbols10-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 51 0 ZJMJPW+LMRoman8-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 52 0 IMCDFK+LMTypewriter10-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 53 0 YJCHEJ+LMMathItalic8-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 54 0 KBUCPP+LMTypewriter9-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 55 0 XMPDUW+LMRoman9-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 56 0 QSWYSG+LMRoman9-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 57 0 QLYZBA+LMMathItalic9-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 58 0 XGNKOW+LMRoman6-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 59 0 HHUADA+LMMathSymbols8-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 63 0 XAAFEP+LMMathExtension10-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 71 0 BLFSLL+LMRoman10-Bold Type 1 yes yes no 72 0 RPZDSR+LMRoman10-BoldItalic Type 1 yes yes no 82 0 TFLFXD+LMSans10-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 103 0 On this article, the conversion from CM (using aeguill) to LM leads to a 80% size increase (more than 200 KB). So, this is still quite bad in real world (both concerning network transmissions, which are not always very fast, and concerning data storage on mobile devices, where space is rather limited). -- Vincent Lef�vre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)