Carl Worth wrote:
> You might take a look at what kind of PostScript and PDF output you
> get from cairo right now, (since cairo has many different kinds of
> font subsetting, (type3, type42 and others), and it's regularly being
> tested on as many PostScript and PDF viewers as possible).
>
Thanks for the tip. Indeed, using the unicode_test.py example (which
probably has a greater than average amount of text in it), the file
sizes are (with the size of the font section is parentheses):
backend_ps.py: 135763 (127211)
cairo: 49102 (39669)
Interestingly, the non-font part is slightly larger for Cairo (9433 vs.
8552)
> I don't know if there's anything special about the PostScript output
> you're currently producing that wouldn't make it acceptable to use
> cairo's PostScript output directly. But even if you just want code,
> it's inside cairo under the LGPL.
>
It may be worthwhile to look at Cairo's font subsetting code if it's
determined that the Python Postscript backend has other advantages. I'm
sure people who've been here longer than I have can better speak to
those pros and cons.
Cheers,
Mike
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