[I've been discussing this off-list with John Hunter, and I thought I'd summarize that conversation in case anyone else on this list has any thoughts or suggestions.]
I've started working on the problem of reducing Postscript output file sizes by saving out only the glyphs that are used in the figure. There are (at least) two alternative approaches: 1. Subset the Truetype font into another Truetype font and embed it as we do now. This could theoretically be done with fonttools/ttx. Writing out .ttf files looks to be rather complex, and there's a lot of griping about the format itself to be found on the 'net. John also mentioned that he'd prefer not to add the requirement of fonttools to the mix from past experience. 2. Convert the Truetype font to a Type 3 font (which is basically a set of standard Postscript commands). There is a small C application (http://www.this.net/~frank/ttconv.tar.gz) that converts TTF to Type 3 that looks to work quite well. Some modifications would have to be made to actually subset the font and to integrate with Python etc., but it's fairly straightforward code, and the licensing is amenable to including it in the matplotlib source tree. Clearly, I'm leaning toward option #2, but thought I'd open it to the crowd to see if there are any other options or opinions on the matter. The plan is to make the choice of the existing or new behavior be an option, with the default TBD. Cheers, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
