Re: Issue 519 in lilypond: PDF filesize has increased between 1.9.8 and 2.10

[Graham Percival]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 2007/12/6, address@hidden <address@hidden>:
> > Issue 519: PDF filesize has increased between 1.9.8 and 2.10
> > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=519
> >
> > Comment #3 by gpermus:
> > Shouldn't the PDFs be independent of OS?  Presumably on windows we
> > include the font
> > so that the PDF will look the same on other systems; PDFs created on
> > OSX should have
> > the same compatibility stuff.
>
> I'm not sure if that is feasible when taken to its consequence. We'd
> have a to include a font that has coverage in all of unicode; it will
> be large, and there might be licensing problems.

Fair enough, but then shouldn't Windows-created PDFs omit the font?

Cheers,
- Graham