Quentin Spencer writes: > I'm an occasional user of lilypond, and new to this list. I'm also the > maintainer of a few packages in Fedora Extras, and I'm considering > submitting lilypond for inclusion there.
That's grand. > currently in Fedora, and amazingly, my PDFs are now back down to their > small sizes again. > so clearly there are special cases that gs 8.15 can't handle. Indeed. 8.50 is now GPL, so that should be used. > I would like to put a request in Fedora's bugzilla to add this > patch, however, I would like to present a convincing reason for why > it needs to be included. Can someone give an explanation of what the > patch does and where it came from (is this already in upstream CVS, > for example)? Yes, have a look at ghostscript bugzilla. If I'm not mistaken, without this patch ghostscript will include a copy of the/a font for each unknown local glyph. So, smaller PDFs are not really something to be amazed about ;-) But, there are more patches that GUB/ghostscript uses, one for windows, two build patches and most relevant: ghostscript-8.50-ttf.patch: Bug 688154 "TTF file fails to load". Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user