[Cl-pdf-devel] reduce PDF size - font subset?

[Attila Lendvai]

> Eventually i have 2 questions
> 1) is there any way to have Polish letters without embeding fonts?


i think it's only possible through embedding. or at least that was the
case a few years back when i looked into it, it's a PDF limitation.


> 2) if not, is it possible to reduce the size of files? embed subset of the
> fonts?


i believe that to be possible by grabbing a font that is preinstalled
by the pdf reader, dropping all character except that you need, and
then using a your-package:put-string that locally sets the embedded
crippled font when encounters a polish character.

but it's not trivial and there may be many potential traps and even
show-stoppers... so, unless it's a special use-case, i'd just ignore
the extra size and accept it as the sideffect of using pdf.

the beginning of this file has some code on how to load a font:

http://dwim.hu/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=HEAD%20hu.dwim.presentation;a=headblob;f=/integration/cl-typesetting.lisp

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