[bug-gs] Re: [bug-pcl] reducing the size Ghostpcl generated PDFs

[Stefan Kemper]

Jon, 

I'm forwarding this to the bug-gs list as it is a design flaw that the
pdfwrite  device requires a postscript interpreter to set the distiller
parameters.

Best Regards,
Stefan Kemper

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 10:30, Jonathan Hurley wrote:
> I have comparing the size of the PDFs generated by ghostpcl, with that
> produced by a commercial pcl2pdf converter written by Visual software.
> Ghostpcl is producing substantially larger PDFs. In one example the pdf
> produced by Ghostpcl is 4.9 megabytes in size, while Visual's tool
> produced a pdf of 27523 bytes. I understand that the difference is because
> Ghostpcl is embedding fonts, whereas Visual is not.
> 
> I understand that embedding fonts means that the pdf will look the same on
> all platforms, but sometimes it may be nicer to get a smaller file size
> at the cost of some slight variations in fonts.
> 
> I am wondering whether it is possible at all to control which fonts are
> embedded in the pdf documents, perhaps using the base 14 fonts as
> substitues.  Alternatively if anyone is aware of open source software (for
> Linux/Unix) that can help with this kind of thing, then I would be
> interested.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> Jon
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