Re: [gs-devel] Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.22 Release Candidate 1

Knut Petersen <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Sep 2017 08:14:37 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel,gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
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Am 18.09.2017 um 20:20 schrieb Ken Sharp:
>> LilyPond has option `--bigpdfs` for unifying duplicate fonts in this method.
>
> And your point is what ? That's not what the pdfwrite device is intended for, and we don't claim you can use it to do that.
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> As I said, if you think its that useful, then you can add the switch back in. 

Ken: You are writing to one of the lilypond developers. So "add the switch back" is the logical equivalent of "add a fork of ghostscript to the lilypond source tree if you need the PDFDontUseFontObjectNum option". Was it really your intention to suggest a fork???

Knut