Re: [matplotlib-devel] Subsetting fonts in Postscript

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Carl Worth wrote:
>   
>> You might take a look at what kind of PostScript and PDF output you
>> get from cairo right now, (since cairo has many different kinds of
>> font subsetting, (type3, type42 and others), and it's regularly being
>> tested on as many PostScript and PDF viewers as possible).
>>   
>>     
> Thanks for the tip.  Indeed, using the unicode_test.py example (which 
> probably has a greater than average amount of text in it), the file 
> sizes are (with the size of the font section is parentheses):
>
>     backend_ps.py:  135763 (127211)
>     cairo: 49102 (39669)
>
> Interestingly, the non-font part is slightly larger for Cairo (9433 vs. 
> 8552)
>   
Though, I should add, there is a bug in Cairo output with 
unicode_demo.py: The y-axis label reads "stream-vera/VeraSe.ttf"...

Cheers,
Mike