Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-19 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 1:15 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > It is possible to avoid this waste by using a > > graphics package implemented in pure TEX (such > > as TikZ) or using METAPOST (for which there is > > special support in dvips, dvipdfm(x) and pdfTEX to > > avoid font and glyph duplicatio

Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

2023-03-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
(moving to the devel list from the user list) Le samedi 18 mars 2023 à 05:08 +, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : > ``` > > > I can see that the size of the Cairo-generated PDF is around 3 times > > bigger compared to the same document generated with Ghostscript?  Is > > there is way to reduce the siz