Re: [gentoo-user] PDF puzzle

[Willie WY Wong]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:32:35AM -0500, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked:
> I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice.
> Today somewhere, I was reminded of 'ps2pdf', which I'd never used before.
> The result is these  4  files :
>
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users    34475 Jan 12 07:52 boox.odt
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users   366711 Jan 13 04:05 boox.pdf
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow 830909 Jan 13 04:07 boox.ps
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow  67184 Jan 13 04:07 boox-test.pdf
>
> Both PDFs seem the same when opened with Xpdf or Okular,
> but the difference in sizes is striking :
> the PDF created with LO direct export is  5 times
> the size of the PDF created with a test run of Ps2pdf ;
> the .ps file created with LO & then used for the latter is even bigger.
>
> Can anyone explain what is going on ?
>

Are the fonts embedded in both versions?

You can check by useing pdffonts (from app-text/poppler).

Cheers, 

W
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