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Font Subsetting

When applications have to setup Postscript files for printing, the problem is that these files often grow large. Each font which is not known to the Postscript interpeter, i.e., usually each font that is not part of the set of 35 standard fonts, has to be downloaded as part of the file. The size of a particular font file often can be reduced by font subsetting, because usually only a small subset of the available character descriptions is actually needed.



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2005-01-12