Hartmut Henkel wrote:
So what is the criteria in the PDF file that the pdffonts tool or acroread decides it's subsetted or not? No idea. It seems that pdftex does in fact some kind of subsetting, and from the practical standpoint, the PDF file with subsetted TT fonts is significantly smaller than the one with fully embedded TT fonts.
just a thought: maybe the whole vector is there but not all the glyph subroutines; since a space is a character a font with say 10% visible glyphs and 90% 'spaces' is fully embedded
(long ago there has been a thread on this font subroutine inclusion being optimized)
Hans
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