On 7/10/07, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote: > I just committed changes that add TTF subsetting to the PDF backend. It > is completely analogous to the font subsetting recently added to the PS > backend. > > I have added a configuration option, pdf.fonttype, to choose either > "Type3" or "Truetype" font output. This may be removed in the future > once the "Type3" stuff has been sufficiently tested. > > Some results: > > fonts_demo_kw.py: 201744 -> 37326 > mathtext_demo.py: 129306 -> 26179 > unicode_demo.py: 45303 -> 20084 > over all demos in backend_driver.py: 5856001 -> 3390460 When you say "over all demos" do you mean just over the PS or PDF depending on which you are testing? I'm a bit confused because the single examples you show show between a 5 and 20 fold improvement, but the overall number is less than 2 fold. So I wonder if you are including the other backend driver PNG, SVG, etc... output.... Just curious. JDH