Re: huge file with Japanese characters

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> This is a bug in gs.  If the Japanese font contains embedded
>> bitmaps, they are not subsetted (as done with all outline glyphs)
>> in the PDF but output completely.  The recent version of gs, 8.70,
>> should simply strip these bitmaps,[1] yielding much smaller PDF
>> files.
> 
> It does not work for me with  ghostscript 8.70.
> The size of files are the same.

Hmm.  I currently don't have time to install version 8.70 -- here is
the bug report:

  http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689209

Perhaps the fix doesn't work as expected, or you are observing a
different bug.  Please report your issues so that it gets really fixed
eventually.


    Werner