Re: Repeated embedded fonts in PDF documentation

[Nick Payne]

On 24/03/11 19:35, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I just tried using pdfsizeopt without pngout, jbig2, or multivalent,
> > and got about a 25% reduction in the size of the Notation Reference
> > pdf.
> Better than nothing, actually.
>
> However, the `multivalent' part is the real optimization engine (and
> this is exactly the problematic bit w.r.t. the license); using it you
> should get far more impressive numbers.

I setup pdfsizeopt, including multivalent, and ran the 2.13.55 docs 
through it, then created a PDF portfolio with an embedded index using 
Acrobat. The end result was a 34.8MB file containing

extending.pdf
internals.pdf
learning.pdf
notation.pdf
snippets.pdf
usage.pdf
web.pdf

For comparison, a portfolio from the same files shrunk in Acrobat is 
29.9Mb, and one made from the PDFs straight out of the doc tarball is a 
bit over 50Mb.

Nick