On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:32:35AM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked:
> I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice.
> Today somewhere, I was reminded of 'ps2pdf', which I'd never used before.
> The result is these 4 files :
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users 34475 Jan 12 07:52 boox.odt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users 366711 Jan 13 04:05 boox.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow 830909 Jan 13 04:07 boox.ps
> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow 67184 Jan 13 04:07 boox-test.pdf
>
> Both PDFs seem the same when opened with Xpdf or Okular,
> but the difference in sizes is striking :
> the PDF created with LO direct export is 5 times
> the size of the PDF created with a test run of Ps2pdf ;
> the .ps file created with LO & then used for the latter is even bigger.
>
> Can anyone explain what is going on ?
>
Are the fonts embedded in both versions?
You can check by useing pdffonts (from app-text/poppler).
Cheers,
W
--
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
