Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.22 Release Candidate 1

[Ken Sharp]

At 19:12 23/09/2017 +0200, Knut Petersen wrote:

> For a recent ghostscript without the PDFDontUseFontObjectNum only the 
> combination of lilyponds --bigpdfs with -dgs-never-embed-fonts gives the 
> desired result. The necessity for the extractpdfmark utility has not 
> changed - use it if you link to destinations in other pdf files. 
> Unfortunately our lilypond build system missed to use the --bigpdfs option 
> together with the -dgs-never-embed-fonts.
>
> If other people agree that my 
> <https://codereview.appspot.com/325630043/>patch solves the problem of 
> exorbitant file sizes, we might live well without ghostscripts 
> PDFDontUseFontObjectNum.

I'm not really clear on how this works, I'm curious as to where the final 
embedded fonts are inserted. However, if it does work it would be a good 
thing from my point of view.


                Ken