Re: Pango & printing?

[Joaquín Cuenca Abela <cuenca pacaterie u-psud fr>]

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 00:53, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:39:08 +0200,
> >>>>> "CC" == Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org> wrote:
> 
> CC> What happens if the font is huge (eg: Lucida Unicode), and we actually want
> CC> to send only a dozen glyphs? Can we avoid carrying five megs worth of
> CC> outlines then?
> 
> If you have the PostScript printer supported the level 3 or
> you install the gs-cjk on your environment, you can use the
> CIDFont and the CMap. it will avoid too big files.

Sorry, but I fail to see your point.

In which way a Cmap helps getting smaller files?

I would suggest subsetting the font to embed only the glyphs that you
use in your document to reduce the size of the file, but I don't the
relationship between subsetting and CID-Fonts or CMap

Cheers,

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Joaquín Cuenca Abela
cuenca pacaterie u-psud fr