+1 here too
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Chris Bowditch <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Thanks for preparing the stats. 39% is quiet a leap and in that case I > agree it makes sense not to subset by default. It looks like I missed the > vote now, sorry about that. But I'm +1 > > Thanks, > > Chris > > On 16/05/2014 17:20, Robert Meyer wrote: > >> Hi Chris, >> >> Here are some performance statistics for three different types of fonts: >> >> TrueType: >> Full = 1123ms >> Subset = 1137ms >> Difference = 1.2% >> >> OpenType: >> Full = 3497ms >> Subset = 3512ms >> Difference = 0.4% >> >> Type 1: >> Full = 1148ms >> Subset = 1896ms >> Difference = 39% >> >> The reason for this can be easily explained. Type 1 fonts contain >> Postscript code. OpenType and TrueType do not as they only contain binary >> data. This means no special effort by them has to be made to parse, >> understand and reconstruct what is effectively another high level >> programming language. >> >> Because of this deficit, it may be best to leave it as an option as per >> Vincent's suggestion unless the user wants to create a smaller file and >> incur the hit. In the meantime I could investigate in the near future >> whether any performance improvements could be made to speed up the process. >> It's likely though this will never result in it being close to either OTF >> or TTF levels of performance. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Robert >> >> > Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:33:52 +0100 >> > From: [email protected] >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Add Type 1 subset support >> > >> > Hi Rob, >> > >> > You've done a great job in developing this feature. Before voting though >> > I'd like to understand why the default is not to subset Type 1 fonts. >> > Most users will want the smallest output file size possible. Not >> > enabling it by default is also inconsistent with True Type fonts, whose >> > default is to subset. This inconsistency could lead to confusion. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Chris >> > >> > On 14/05/2014 10:22, Robert Meyer wrote: >> > > Hi All, >> > > >> > > Following on from the last failed vote for adding Type 1 subset >> > > support, I have now put forward a modified patch and am ready to try >> > > this again. The patch went up on Monday to address the issues and >> > > comments made by Vincent and Luis. This vote will last 5 working days >> > > and will finish next Wednesday at the same time. >> > > >> > > As always if you have any concerns or find anything please let me >> > > know. If they are small I will try and address the issue before the >> > > vote is finalized in order to avoid repeating this again. Please note >> > > that all type 1 fonts will default to full embedding unless you use >> > > the embedding-mode="subset" as per one of the recommendations from the >> > > last vote. >> > > >> > > Here is my vote: +1 >> > > >> > > Best Regards, >> > > >> > > Robert Meyer >> > >> > >
