> After producing the file with -P-e and -Tpdf, if you wish to reduce
> the size of the pdf, use ps2pdf to process the pdf again, this will
> subset the fonts.
An alternative to that which compresses even better might be the
`pdfsizeopt` script.
https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt
Werner
Hi Piotr,
> Now the question, what if we compile with pdfroff ...? It does not
> support -e option and does not embed Symbol into PDF. Since pdfroff is
> devps-based and internally must be using the ps2pdf
It uses GhostScript's gs(1) to do ps2pdf(1)'s task, yes.
$ grep -nw gs /usr/bin/pdfro
Hi Marc,
> fc-match -f '%{file}\n' Symbol
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf
What distro and version is this, e.g. Ubuntu 18.04. Is groff from that
distro, or something you've built?
> locate symbol.ttf
> /usr/share/wine/fonts/symbol.ttf
Note, the Symbol font
Ranph,
I confirm: in Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 the path to Symbol font in
/devpdf/download is wrong. The path fix indeed results in embedding all fonts
in case of compilation as
groff -Tpdf -P-e ...
Now the question, what if we compile with pdfroff ...?
It does not support -e option and does not
On Monday, 24 February 2020 14:21:26 GMT Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello,
>
> > The symbol font is one of the base type 1 fonts which all pdf viewers
> > should support, so the font is not actually embedded in the pdf. You
> > could try adding "- P-e" to the groff command.
>
> Even if Tadziu told u
Hi Piotr,
> A potential problem with GROFF/ghostscript is that it DOES NOT embed
> the Symbol font even with the -P-e option. I wish the developers could
> check this.
groff 1.22.4-1 on Arch Linux. I tried -e and found groff could no
longer find the Symbol font to embed. Investigation showed th
People,
I have the same problem after having upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04. This is entirely
the viewer's issue: Evince, Zathura somehow lost the Symbol font, whereas Mupdf
and gv still show everything correctly. So my solution was to switch from the
standard Evince to Mupdf.
A potential problem wi
hello,
> The symbol font is one of the base type 1 fonts which all pdf viewers should
> support, so the font is not actually embedded in the pdf. You could try
> adding "-
> P-e" to the groff command.
Even if Tadziu told us this is the current recommendation (embed
everything), i really can't su
> They both probably use a central font service. On this Arch Linux
> machine, I get
>
> $ fc-match -f '%{file}\n' Symbol
fc-match -f '%{file}\n' Symbol
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf
dpkg -S /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf
fonts-opensymbol:
