Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.22 Release Candidate 1

Knut Petersen <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:24:06 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel,gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
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Am 25.09.2017 um 10:41 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> The good news: The winning solution (96MB)
>>
>>   * is possible without PDFDontUseFontObjectNum
>>   * is possible with HEAD of git master of ghostscript.
> What's the tree size for "make doc"?  How does it deal with older
> versions of Ghostscript?
>
> At any rate: is there any reason for us to actually use glyphshow at all
> considering its apparent drawbacks?

Some test show that a complete switch to "show" would increase file sizes for the normal user that compiles a score and does not process the pdf with other tools.

I'll answer with more details soon with some of the cc: dropped.

Thanks to the ghostscript community for your great tool and your patience!

Knut