On Monday, 24 February 2020 14:21:26 GMT Marc Chantreux wrote: > hello, > > > The symbol font is one of the base type 1 fonts which all pdf viewers > > should support, so the font is not actually embedded in the pdf. You > > could try adding "- P-e" to the groff command. > > Even if Tadziu told us this is the current recommendation (embed > everything), i really can't subscribe: it's 24k more per file. so i'll > keep on trying to fix the readers (and help the others to do so > eventually). > > regards > marc
After producing the file with -P-e and -Tpdf, if you wish to reduce the size of the pdf, use ps2pdf to process the pdf again, this will subset the fonts.