brnosouza
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4 years ago Do you guys have any update on this issue? I would love to use this feature
Open FelixSchwarz opened 6 years ago
brnosouza
commented
4 years ago Do you guys have any update on this issue? I would love to use this feature
liZe
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4 years ago Do you guys have any update on this issue? I would love to use this feature
The best way to get this is to get rid of Cairo (see #841), but that’s hard to do.
bl-ue
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3 years ago Any progress since March?
FelixSchwarz
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3 years ago @bl-ue I think #1232 and https://github.com/CourtBouillon/pydyf should provide a path forward so this can be implemented.
grewn0uille
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3 years ago @bl-ue I think #1232 and https://github.com/CourtBouillon/pydyf should provide a path forward so this can be implemented.
That’s right! We replaced Cairo by our own PDF generator on the master branch. There is some work to do before we can make a release. You can follow #1232 to track the progress. After a release without Cairo, we will be able to work on features like this one!
bl-ue
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3 years ago Wow! Thank you for the fast response!! 🤩
We over @tldr-pages use WeasyPrint several times a day, and the PDF that contains all of our (4000?) pages is getting a little big...:smile:
I'll be sure to track that issue and introduce the rest of the team to it. Again, thank you guys for your extremely fast responses!!!
liZe
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3 years ago I'll be sure to track that issue and introduce the rest of the team to it. Again, thank you guys for your extremely fast responses!!!
You’re welcome!
I’ve read your script, and your problem is not the one described by this issue. Your problem is that fonts are embedded multiple times when pages from multiple WeasyPrint documents are put in a single PDF. Could you please open a new issue with a link to your Python script? Thank you!
liZe
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3 years ago @bl-ue Your problem is fixed (I hope) with the current master branch. If you can test TLDR with the next version of WeasyPrint, I’d be glad to know if it works for you (and of course get your bug reports :wink:). If it doesn’t work, please open a new issue!
bl-ue
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3 years ago Okay @liZe, wonderful! I'm sorry I never got to the issue—I got busy :)
P.S. Your team is really responsive! Good choice to pick WeasyPrint! :D
liZe
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3 years ago Here’s the result for French pages.
PDF size was 3.4MB, it’s now 400kB :tada:.
P.S. Your team is really responsive! Good choice to pick WeasyPrint! :D
:heart:
I'm generating a few hundred PDF files with weasyprint and the total size of the PDF files starts to add up. That in turn starts pushing some other legacy systems quite badly so I'm looking for ways to reduce the final PDF size.
I noticed that proprietary PDF tools are able to "optimize" my generated PDFs which results in way smaller PDF files. Now I'm looking for ways to do achieve similar effects with WeasyPrint.
From what I can see in Evince each of my PDFs has some embedded fonts (even though I don't have any special font requirements). My hope was that I could somehow tell WeasyPrint to use Helvetica which is (AFAIK) a PDF default font which doesn't need to be embedded.
Unfortunately so far I was unable to achieve this. WeasyPrint always embeds a font. Is there any way to tell WeasyPrint it should NOT embed Helvetica/ensure only standard PDF fonts are used?