On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Peter Thomassen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this list is right for my question, but I'd like to know if > there's any approach of GNU PDF in the direction of such problems. I don't think gnupdf development has gotten that far. I expect it will eventually have code to do this, though. It's a normal feature of pdf creation software. > Maybe, there already is existing software to reduce the embedded fonts to > the subset that is actually used? Or is that impossible? No, it's relatively straightforward. Ghostscript has code to do this, but it's part of the general pdf writer module. I don't know of a stand-alone tool to do so. You might see if there's something available in any of the webfont prototypes. FWIW, -r
