Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

[David Kastrup]

Paul Hodges <pwh@cassland.org> writes:

> From:   Andrew Bernard <andrew.bernard@mailbox.org> 
>
> In this day of gigabyte this an terabyte that, does a large PDF matter  
> very much? What is the issue of concern?
>
> Unnecessary waste of resources is always a poor idea, especially if it
> is unexplained.
>
>
>
> My concern is more wondering that if the ordinary PDF is of the
> required quality (defined how?), what is being changed to increase its
> size so much?

Different mostly redundant font subsets for thousands of images add up.

-- 
David Kastrup