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120113 Willie WY Wong wrote: |
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> Are the fonts embedded in both versions? |
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> You can check by useing pdffonts (from app-text/poppler). |
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The answer appears to be Yes : |
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508: lit> pdffonts boox-lo.pdf |
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name type emb sub uni object ID |
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------------------------------------ -------- --- --- --- --------- |
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URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 yes no yes 53 0 |
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URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1 yes no yes 48 0 |
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URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 yes no yes 61 0 |
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URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1 yes no yes 64 0 |
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URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1 yes no yes 56 0 |
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509: lit> pdffonts boox-gs.pdf |
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name type emb sub uni object ID |
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------------------------------------ -------- --- --- --- --------- |
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ODEQKL+URWPalladioL-Roma Type 1C yes yes no 8 0 |
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MWWLSZ+URWPalladioL-Bold Type 1C yes yes no 10 0 |
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SMYMFI+URWPalladioL-Ital Type 1C yes yes no 12 0 |
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However, this does reveal that the GS fonts are subsets, |
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that they are Compact Format (CFF) & that the file lacks a ToUnicode map. |
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That may well explain why the GS version is smaller. |
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Does anyone know how far the extra info in the LO version mb useful ? |
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I've uploaded the files to my I/net site (see other msg) |
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& will do some further investigation myself. |
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