Re: Missing items to make Cairo ready

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Indeed, but the manuals as a whole, in all languages, get also
>> distributed, and there it *does* make a significant difference
>> IMHO: Right now, the PDFs in `lilypond-2.24.0-documentation.tar.xz`
>> (which has a size of 170MByte) need 144MByte in total
>> (uncompressed).  Multiply the latter by four...
> 
> To me, it matters even less in the doc tarball because that is
> something you will only download once per release.

This is apparently a generation thing: I still can remember using
modems that transferred 4kByte/s...

BTW, I've open an issue regarding PDF font embedding/subsetting in
Cairo.

  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/618


     Werner