Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.22 Release Candidate 1

[David Kastrup]

Ken Sharp <address@hidden> writes:

> At 14:57 20/09/2017 +0200, Knut Petersen wrote:
>
>>I sent a collection of files to Ken.
>
> Well, my idea doesn't work with your font, because (I think) its an
> OTF font. I had hoped it would be possible to create the PDF files
> with *no* fonts embedded at all, then have Ghostscript embed them just
> the once when emitting the final file. This works for my simple tests,
> but not for your files/fonts.

Did you get to see the PostScript files before conversion with pstopdf?
Would being able to generate those differently make a difference?

> When we have customers wanting to send us 125GB files I have to say
> that a concern over file sizes in the few megabytes seems a bit picky.

Those 125GB files, I wager, are for one-time printing or further
compression, not for public download from a website.  So the comparison
is not entirely fair.

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David Kastrup