[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX
William F. Adams
wadams at atlis.com
Tue Apr 13 23:03:33 CEST 2004
On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 04:11 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> I just tried XeTeX on an old document of mine: it's a relatively simple
> 4-pages document, using the plain format and only CM fonts (the basic
> ones
> for the plain format + cmbsy5,7,10). There's nothing special about this
> document, except that it contains many formulae, most of them multiline
> and input with \eqalign.
> I had a big surprise: the PDF output of pdfTeX is 84 kb, compilation
> takes
> a couple of seconds (in TeXShop) and display is even more rapid. With
> XeTeX the PDF output is 15.9 Mb (!), compilation and display take
> ages. It
> seems (according to Adobe Reader) that the PDF file contains many
> copies
> of every single font (like cmmi10), some with personalized encoding and
> others with roman encoding, for the same font.
> So it looks like there is still room for improvement! (Which shouldn't
> be
> taken as a criticism, for v0.3 software.)
Yeah, the CM-test file in the xetex samples folder exhibits a similar
difficulty (multiple copies of CMMI10) and is much larger (340KB) than
it ought to be.
William
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