[XeTeX] Controlling font embedding in PDF output

[Zdenek Wagner]

pá 16. 11. 2018 v 15:36 odesílatel Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> napsal:

>
> > > Is there a simple option to make XeTeX (or rather xdvipdfmx) not
> > > embed fonts in PDFs?  I'm going to post-process the output, which
> > > will do the embedding.
> >
> > Perhaps it is easier to generate the PDF, then remove the embedded
> > fonts?
>
> Not for my use case, which is to include many PDFs (generated by
> LilyPond) into a master PDF (generated by XeLaTeX).  The
> post-processor (Ghostscript's ps2pdf script) should then compute
> subsetted fonts for the whole document, which can make the final PDF
> *a lot* smaller in comparison to the standard way because subsetted
> fonts usually can't be merged.
>
> In LilyPond I can control whether its output PDF gets generated
> (1) the usual way (using subsetted fonts), (2) with embedded but not
> subsetted fonts, or (3) without embedded fonts.  Ideally, I want
> option (3) for XeTeX (and for pdfTeX and luatex also, BTW).  If this
> isn't possible, I would like to enforce option (2) so that ps2pdf can
> still do a decent job (at the cost of larger intermediate PDFs).
>

I tried to look into the updmap manual  and dvipdfmx manual but I cannot
find command-line od configuration options to do that.

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>     Werner
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> Zdeněk Wagner
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