On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 11:47, Owen wrote: > > Using Ubuntu breezy with 1.2.3 I created a 97 KByte sla file with 3 > > fonts and zero images. The sla file was for one page only of about 300 > > words. > > > > The fonts were; > > DejaVu sans oblique 6pt > > DejaVu mono roman 10pt > > DejaVu serif bold > > > > only two of these were used and all were embedded in postscript > > > > > > Exporting this to pdf gave a 5.7 MByte pdf file. > > > > Changing the fonts to the Free* series didn't alter the pdf size much, > > nor did exporting the pdf at 75 dpi > > > > Is all this reasonable? > > How large are those font files? owen at ubuntu:~$ ls -la /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63552 2005-09-22 06:12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58704 2005-09-22 06:12 DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81456 2005-09-22 06:12 DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82944 2005-09-22 06:12 DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf So for every character I am embedding 80K? Wow Owen
