Re: eqn sqrt and pdf?

[Deri]

On Monday, 24 February 2020 14:21:26 GMT Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello,
> 
> > The symbol font is one of the base type 1 fonts which all pdf viewers
> > should support, so the font is not actually embedded in the pdf. You
> > could try adding "- P-e" to the groff command.
> 
> Even if Tadziu told us this is the current recommendation (embed
> everything), i really can't subscribe: it's 24k more per file. so i'll
> keep on trying to fix the readers (and help the others to do so
> eventually).
> 
> regards
> marc


After producing the file with -P-e and -Tpdf, if you wish to reduce the size 
of the pdf, use ps2pdf to process the pdf again, this will subset the fonts.