Re: Huge Filesize of PS file 12M

[Wim Stockman]

Thanks Werner,
I'm sorry for the attachment. I won't do it again.
So thank you for the tip. I disabled the fonts in the /devps/download file
and it went from 12MB to 92K so that is already a big step forward.
Is there a better way to disable the embedding of fonts ?
Because I still see a lot of this :
"
grops begin/DEFS 1 dict def DEFS begin/u{.001 mul}bind def end/RES 72
def/PL 841.89 def/LS false def/ENC0[/asciicircum/asciitilde/Scaron
/Zcaron/scaron/zcaron/Ydieresis/trademark/quotesingle/Euro/.notdef
/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef
/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef
/.notdef/.notdef/.notdef/space/exclam/quotedbl/numbersign/dollar/percent
/ampersand/quoteright/parenleft/parenright/asterisk/plus/comma/hyphen
"
in the Postscript file.
Can I somehow remove them. I don't need all those special characters.

Thank you all
Kind regards
Wim Stockman

Op wo 20 jan. 2021 om 22:11 schreef Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>:

>
> Wim,
>
>
> > I'm generating my postscript file with my own macros for writing
> > company letters.  But the generated filesize is 12MB for the PS
> > filesize.
>
> please, PLEASE, don't send such huuuge e-mails to a mailing list!
> Instead, upload it to a place temporarily where interested people can
> download it for further inspection.
>
> > for some reason there is a huge part binary how can I avoid this ?
>
> You can't.  groff doesn't support font subsetting (yet).  To get small
> files, process groff's output with ghostscript's `ps2ps` tool or
> something similar.
>
> > I installed the GNU freefonts maybe it has something to do with it?
>
> Yes, all your fonts are obviously converted to PostScript resources and
> embedded into the output file.
>
> IIRC it's actually possible to make groff not embed the fonts.
> However, this means that you *must* preprocess the output file with
> ghostscript to get something portable.
>
>
>     Werner
>