Re: [Groff] devpdf U-fonts and Russian

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I understand the motivation for PDF was speeding rendering, e.g. no
> lexing of PostScript, and remove control flow so the linear
> description of the page dominated render time, and not hard to
> predict, or faulty, loops.

Another important issue is security.  PS, as a programming language,
allows far too much things.

> I often run ps2pdf(1) on PDF files here, e.g. from -Tpdf, as it
> often makes them use fewer bytes.

If you want small PDF files, I suggest pdfsizeopt as a postprocessor.

  https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt


    Werner