Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I need to use HTML anyway. I realized that universal unicode fonts are >> above 5MB in size. The report would be a 10KB PDF, but I need to embed >> the font before I can send it to anyone. Since some reports needs to be >> sent in emails, I need to use something else. I cannot be sending 10MB >> emails for "one page" reports. >> >I thought that usually when you embed a font in a PDF only the glyphs which >are actually used in the document get embedded. Unfortunately a quick test >with reportlab seems to show that it doesn't do that optimisation: it looks >as though it just embeds the entire font.
No, it does subsetting. There was a debate a year or two ago on the reportlab list about how the font subset should be named in the resulting PDF file. Is it possible you have an older release? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
