Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> writes: >> The download size for the notation manual comes out at 35MB which is >> about double than what we had for 2.16. I actually find that >> somewhat irritating. I'd have to check the old conversations about >> extractpdfmark and see whether this is indeed where our change of >> text fonts would have placed us even after the extractpdfmark work. >> Though I do seem to remember that the subsetting problem depended on >> the kind of font used, and the newer fonts were in a different form. > > What exactly are you talking about? The file > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation.pdf > > currently has a size of approx. 6.9MByte.
Ah, that sounds more like it. To be fair, the web site <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/web/notation> advertises it to be 35MB in size. But it clocks in at actual 6.6MB. I think the download text would warrant correction. I just naively assumed it to be automatically generated in correspondence with reality. > If I optimize this with the `pdfsizeopt` script, it can be further > reduced to 4.9MByte – we should probably seriously consider using this > script for the PDF files that are to be downloaded from lilypond.org. > > https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt > > (BTW, the `pdfsizeopt` maintainer looks for a volunteer or some > funding to make a transition to python3. Another specialty is that > the script needs gs 9.21 or so since newer GS versions dropped some > essential functionality needed for processing. This sounds very > familiar to our issues with ghostscript...) -- David Kastrup
