[softwarelist] Re: Printing lots of fonts

  • From: Paul Sprangers <Paul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 15:17:15 +0200

In article <Uv8AN$BbT4tPFwPP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >The one thing I can't remember, and hopefully David can clarify, is if 
> >when printing to PostScript does OPro send all the fonts in the 
> >document to the PostSctipt stream or only those being used on the 
> >actual pages to be printed.

> I think it was once the case that all fonts in the document were sent to 
> the printer, that was not popular and later versions scan for fonts 
> actually used.

When I print the first page only, which has one single word ("Serifs") in
one single font (Bembo), the resulting postscript file still contains the
definitions of 200+ fonts, making a file of nearly 17 Mbyte.

Kind regards,
Paul Sprangers

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