Re: [matplotlib-devel] TTF subsetting in PDF

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On 7/10/07, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> The comparison is just over the PDF files, old way (Truetype embedding)
> vs. new way (Type 3 subsetting).
> The ratios are different because I chose to highlight the examples that
> are quite "texty".  That wasn't a deliberate attempt to mislead, it's
> just because this change is related to fonts.  Most of the other
> examples use a single font, and the plotting content itself dominates
> file size.

This must be dominated by some weird outliers.  I'm seeing great
results with the canonical "simple_plot"

johnh@flag:examples> python simple_plot.py -dPS
johnh@flag:examples> mv simple_plot.ps new.ps
johnh@flag:examples> PYTHONPATH=/my/old/site-packages python simple_plot.py -dPS
johnh@flag:examples> mv simple_plot.ps old.ps
johnh@flag:examples> ls -l old.ps new.ps
-rw-r--r--   1 johnh    research   19352 Jul 10 12:11 new.ps
-rw-r--r--   1 johnh    research  144227 Jul 10 12:11 old.ps

Though for some reason my 90.1 install is picking up Vera Serif and my
svn install is picking up Vera Sans., which is mysterious but
unrelated to your work

In any case, excellent work!

JDH