Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> writes: > Le dimanche 02 avril 2023 à 18:20 +0000, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : >> Essentially, this option switches between the `show` and `glyphshow` >> PostScript operators to access Emmentaler glyphs. The former is >> considered the 'standard' method for accessing glyphs in a PS file >> (according to the GS developers); however, it needs properly set up >> encoding vectors (which can't exceed a size of 256 glyphs each). The >> latter is slower, AFAIK, and apparently not as well supported with GS >> (at least, we filed some bug reports, IIRC). > > Thanks, that helps. However, I still don't understand what impact on > size this makes. Do the two result in different PDF primitives?
I seem to remember that the second variant allowed Ghostscript to merge subsetted fonts from included separate files. -- David Kastrup
