Hi Wolfgang, On Dec 13, 2007 7:17 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 2007/12/13, Zhichu Chen : > > 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. > > > Wolfgang > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------