Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.22 Release Candidate 1

Ken Sharp <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:10:57 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel,gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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