Re: size of pdf files

[Johan Vromans]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:18:21 +0100
Knut Petersen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Shall we open a lilypond bug report? I don't know - the generated ps code
> is valid and works, so there is no real bug. I think it would be a
> feature request.

It's a bit of both. PostScript is much more optimized to deal with normal
'show' than 'glyphshow', which is, or should be, used only in exceptional
cases. So it would be beneficial to eliminate glyphshow as much as
possible. This can be obtained the way Ken describes.

But instead of fixing this, I think it is much more interesting to
consider reworking the LP backend to directly produce PDF, and eliminate
the ghostscript dependency.

-- Johan