On 12/18/23, Oliver Corff via <groff@gnu.org> wrote: > I tried to compile my minimal document again, with all combinations of > -e, -F /usr/share/fonts/urw35-base/ but nothing changes. The PDF file is > always 11771 bytes long. Embedding a font or a glyph should make a > difference, or not?
Embedding a font will definitely change the file size. Groff's options can be confusing because some apply to groff itself and some to the postprocessor. If you give groff the -e option, that tells it to run the input through eqn. To get embedded fonts in PDF output, you need to give the postprocessor, in this case gropdf, the -e option. From groff, you can specify postprocessor options via -P. So specifying -P-e to groff sends the -e option to gropdf, which will then embed the fonts. With this you should see the changed file size. > This prompted me to send the pdf to a different device, and voilà! there > everything shows up as intended! > > groff 1.23.0 is acquitted. That's good news. Indeed. But you still may want to give groff -P-e to make your file more robust, letting it work with a wider range of PDF viewers.
