Hi Wolfgang, On Dec 14, 2007 6:24 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 2007/12/14, Hans Hagen : > > Zhichu Chen wrote: > > > Hi Wolfgang, > > > > > > On Dec 13, 2007 7:17 PM, Wolfgang Schuster < > schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> > > > 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. > > > > xetex just pipes data into dvipdfmx, and dvipdfmx can subset (this was > > accomplished by Chof, who lives in Korea and uses huge fonts) > > But you don't have to care about this normally because this is done > automatic, > it is harder to prevent this ConTeXt and produce only xdv files. > > The file size with XeTeX should be the same as in the pdfTeX way but I > found no > way to prevent xdvipdfmx to embedd the fonts, I know there is a "-e" > flag but I don't > if this should only lead to embedd the complete font or to disable > font embedding > but I can't test this because my xdvipdfmx has no "-e" flag. No offense but xdvipdfmx has some problem with the graphics. I'm kind of one of the managers of the Chinese TeX Society and we have a forum called CTeX forum, and there're a lot of posts complaining that xdvipdfmx will cut part of their graphics. For instance, if they draw a picture with metapost, xdvipdfmx will only show the first quadrant of it. I guess it's confused about the boundingbox and the accordinate. > > > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------