>> Indeed, but the manuals as a whole, in all languages, get also >> distributed, and there it *does* make a significant difference >> IMHO: Right now, the PDFs in `lilypond-2.24.0-documentation.tar.xz` >> (which has a size of 170MByte) need 144MByte in total >> (uncompressed). Multiply the latter by four... > > To me, it matters even less in the doc tarball because that is > something you will only download once per release.
This is apparently a generation thing: I still can remember using modems that transferred 4kByte/s... BTW, I've open an issue regarding PDF font embedding/subsetting in Cairo. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/618 Werner