Re: size of pdf files

[Urs Liska]

Am 15. Dezember 2014 11:05:59 MEZ, schrieb Johan Vromans <address@hidden>:
>On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:18:21 +0100
>Knut Petersen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Shall we open a lilypond bug report? I don't know - the generated ps
>code
>> is valid and works, so there is no real bug. I think it would be a
>> feature request.
>
>It's a bit of both. PostScript is much more optimized to deal with
>normal
>'show' than 'glyphshow', which is, or should be, used only in
>exceptional
>cases. So it would be beneficial to eliminate glyphshow as much as
>possible. This can be obtained the way Ken describes.
>
>But instead of fixing this, I think it is much more interesting to
>consider reworking the LP backend to directly produce PDF, and
>eliminate
>the ghostscript dependency.
>

Two questions:
1)
Is it clear that nobody would need Postscript output itself, e.g. to produce 
something different than PDF?
2)
Is that a feasible goal?

Urs


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