Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.22 Release Candidate 1

[email protected] (Perry Hutchison) Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:27:52 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel
Message-ID <59c06488.GU5H7xGynaY9cbW6%[email protected]>
Masamichi Hosoda <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>It seems that `-dPDFDontUseFontObjectNum` option does not work.
...
> There is a tool for using this method of removing duplicate fonts.
> https://www.ctan.org/pkg/extractpdfmark
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/extractpdfmark
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/extractpdfmark

As I see it, the availability of a separate tool to do the same thing
is a reason to _not_ provide a duplicate capability in Ghostscript.
Those who want that processing (despite the risks that Ken mentioned)
can use extractpdfmark.