120113 Willie WY Wong wrote: > Are the fonts embedded in both versions? > You can check by useing pdffonts (from app-text/poppler).
The answer appears to be Yes : 508: lit> pdffonts boox-lo.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ -------- --- --- --- --------- URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 yes no yes 53 0 URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 yes no yes 48 0 URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 yes no yes 61 0 URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 yes no yes 64 0 URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 yes no yes 56 0 509: lit> pdffonts boox-gs.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ -------- --- --- --- --------- ODEQKL+URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1C yes yes no 8 0 MWWLSZ+URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1C yes yes no 10 0 SMYMFI+URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1C yes yes no 12 0 However, this does reveal that the GS fonts are subsets, that they are Compact Format (CFF) & that the file lacks a ToUnicode map. That may well explain why the GS version is smaller. Does anyone know how far the extra info in the LO version mb useful ? I've uploaded the files to my I/net site (see other msg) & will do some further investigation myself. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca