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Bug#424404: PDF files are much larger with lmodern than with CM fonts



Am 16.05.2007 um 01:58 teilte Vincent Lefevre mit:

> PDF files generated using lmodern are much larger than the ones
> generated using CM (via aeguill). For instance, 260333 bytes with
> CM, and 469516 bytes with LM, for the same quality! LM should be
> improved to get file sizes comparable to CM.
> 
> The following script can be used to show the difference on simple
> examples.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Here are a few examples:
> 
> $ for i in A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q ACDE AL LP; ./cmp-cmlm $i
>   3179  15922 A
>   3609  21793 B
>   3167  16484 C
>   3155  15972 D
>   3167  15592 E
>   3168  20367 F
>   3660  15756 G
>   3214  15535 H
>   3126  16303 I
>   3150  21196 J
>   3240  15580 K
>   3128  22096 L
>   3211  15497 M
>   3175  15664 N
>   3130  17331 O
>   3159  21973 P
>   3249   9658 Q
>   3682  17016 ACDE
>   3369  22358 AL
>   3310  22385 LP
> 
> The first column gives the file sizes when using CM, the second column
> gives the file sizes when using LM.
> 
Situation did not improve, just got worse on CM side.

hille@debian-amd64-sid:~/devel/TeXLive/open_bugs/424404$ for i in A B C
D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q ACDE AL LP; do ./424404.sh $i; done
  8272  16176 A
  9142  20688 B
  9176  16862 C
  8183  16260 D
  8200  15898 E
  8225  20779 F
  9288  16120 G
  8372  15808 H
  8216  16720 I
  8208  21720 J
  8384  15915 K
  8196  22690 L
  8297  15864 M
  8272  16026 N
  9990  17704 O
  8219  21657 P
  9334   9102 Q
  9732  17378 ACDE
  8471  22929 AL
  8392  22876 LP

H.
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