[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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