On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:07:49PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: > This evening I'll put what follows into practice (i.e. new test iso > image). just done it: you can grab it from [1] > 3) It's also possible to strip the following (random) glyphs not > used in the g-i (there are certainly others): > > Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF) > Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F) > > ae_AlMohanad.ttf: u2202:u2265 Haven't done this since I've stripped only the tarballs > DejaVuSans-Bold*.ttf: u2202:u2265 u2580:u259F actually I meant DejaVuSans*.ttf > Gargi_1.7.ttf: u2212 u2219 > Saab.ttf: u2212 Some weird messages happened during the stripping but let's just move on for now :) Here's the stats for usr/share/fonts: ---- FreeSansBold.ttf: 837 glyphs [71964 bytes] FreeSansOblique.ttf: 856 glyphs [79056 bytes] FreeSans.ttf: 1211 glyphs [93644 bytes] ae_AlMohanad.ttf: 446 glyphs [120920 bytes] ja.ttf: 733 glyphs [146236 bytes] ko.ttf: 701 glyphs [119164 bytes] zh.ttf: 1814 glyphs [1176716 bytes] MuktiNarrow_11-08-2005.ttf: 197 glyphs [84556 bytes] DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: 822 glyphs [99084 bytes] DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: 823 glyphs [105052 bytes] DejaVuSans.ttf: 822 glyphs [108252 bytes] Gargi_1.7.ttf: 236 glyphs [74116 bytes] Saab.ttf: 137 glyphs [105492 bytes] Font files: 13 Total size: 2384252 bytes Unique Glyphs: 4565 Bytes per glyph: 522 Generating unicode map file... ---- The size of mini.iso went from 10674176 bytes to 9512960 bytes I took some screenshoots using Attilio's tool and to me looks like things changed the right way: I'd like to hear from native speakers. bengali: compare [2] with [3] hindi: compare [4] with [5] punjabi: compare [6] with [7] I removed only BoldOblique. Let's say this was a minimal cleanup without risks. Obviously we can strip alot more but we can't expect to gain alot more space: the iso containing _only_ nazli is 8185856 bytes, so I guess we can use that as lower limit... If you want to avoid going through the all process of stripping the fonts, you can get a tarball [8] with all the stripped tarballs (it's recursive :)) regards, Davide PS: Christian, I noticed that hi.po does not contain the "/Choose language" in the msgstr; now I understand why it is useful [1] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/mini_20060215.iso [2] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bengali_pre.jpg [3] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bengali_post.jpg [4] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/hindi_pre.jpg [5] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/hindi_post.jpg [6] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/punjabi_pre.jpg [7] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/punjabi_post.jpg [8] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/gi-fonts_0.1.tgz
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