On 2013-10-10 10:45, flymail wrote:
> On 2013-10-09, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
>> On 2013-10-09 20:06, tannington wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The PDF Core fonts are:
> From those fonts, I don’t see a potential alternative for Arial Narrow. It’s at least reassuring to see Helvetica
> included in the list :). However instead of Times New Roman, I’d prefer CM Roman :D.
No, you miss the point, it is not a question of preferences.
If you create a document with just the text “hello” in Helvetica, it
will have a certain size, and much bigger with CM Roman.
Quick test:
With Courier, hello.pdf has 1394 bytes.
With Courier new it has 10221 bytes.
The difference is that Courier New has to be embedded in the pdf,
whereas Courier hasn’t: it is used the font of the target machine (in
the viewer). See in adobe reader the properties/fonts tab. There is a
CLI command to see it as well.
(I have not tried with helvetica, because for some unknown reason, my
libreoffice does not have it).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))