Re: [Groff] Times-Roman v. Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular.

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>   groff -P -y -P U -Tpdf z.tr > z.pdf
> 
> Ah, no mention of Times, and Nimbus embedded.  It's a big file though,
> ~120,000 bytes compared with ~4,000 if -Tps and ps2pdf is used to also
> embed Nimbus.  I guess the latter picks just certain runes?

gropdf is very simple; it doesn't subset fonts.  To get a small output
file you should use GhostScript:

  ps2pdf z.pdf z-optimized.pdf

This reduces the PDF file size to ~4kByte.

> Presuambly, troff has used Times' metrics before that?

Yes.  They should be fully compatible, IIRC.


    Werner