Re: What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light?

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:10:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47623A7D.2050706@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <769ba7780712132024l4728b438weac570fa8c84f3c3@mail.gmail.com>

Zhichu Chen wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> On Dec 13, 2007 7:17 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 2007/12/13, Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Maybe this post has gone too far, and I've tried a bunch of methods to
>> get
>>> my map work. Anyway, I can't. And there's something I must say, why
>> pdftex
>>> must embed the whole otf file? It's about 15M for my only-one-character
>> test
>>> file and about 20M for my another only-two-characters test file,
>> besides,
>>> embedding otf files are so so slow. I don't think I'm ready for otf yet.
>> I tried the Song font from Adobe a few days ago with XeTeX and a older
>> chinese example text from you and the file size with 37 pages of output
>> was a little bit over 1 MB, the same result with luaTeX but I got more
>> pages.
> 
> Then XeTeX can treat otf fonts correctly? I never tried that. I convert the
> otf file into multiple type1 fonts (which compiles much more faster on my
> PC) and I got 1.7M with 60 pages with pdftex embed the subsets. And I got
> 440.9K with the same document and the same tfm files except I specify Adobe
> Reader to use SimSun and not embed any fonts. I like the later.

xetex just pipes data into dvipdfmx, and dvipdfmx can subset (this was 
accomplished by Chof, who lives in Korea and uses huge fonts)

Hans

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