Fonts Optimization in PDF
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Font used: Arial Regular Version 7.00 © 2017 The Monotype Corporation
State Size Compressed Size (Deflate)
PDF file size (one page standard text)
Original - composite PDF font 1,036,584 Bytes 538,526 Bytes 562,266 Bytes
List of font data tables OpenType - DSIG, GDEF, GPOS, GSUB, JSTF, LTSH, PCLT, VDMX TrueType - cmap, cvt ,fpgm, gasp, glyf, hdmx, head, hhea, hmtx, kern, loca, maxp, meta, name, post, prep
Table 1. Font file composition after embedding the complete font.
Font used: Arial Regular Version 7.00 © 2017 The Monotype Corporation
State Size Compressed Size (Deflate)
PDF file size (one page standard text)
Leave only minimum required tables for CID font 714,224 Bytes 420,000 Bytes 422,410 Bytes
OpenType - None TrueType - glyf, head, hhea, hmtx, loca, maxp
Table 2. Font file composition after reducing font data tables to minimum.
Font used: Arial Regular Version 7.00 © 2017 The Monotype Corporation
State Size Compressed Size (Deflate)
PDF file size (one page standard text)
Remove Unused glyphs 28,584 Bytes 19,264 Bytes 21,671 Bytes
OpenType - None TrueType - glyf, head, hhea, hmtx, loca, maxp
Table 3. Font file composition after removing the unused glyph definitions.
Font used: Arial Regular Version 7.00 © 2017 The Monotype Corporation
State Size Compressed Size (Deflate)
PDF file size (one page standard text)
Reduce hmtx to used glyphs 12,005 Bytes 10,576 Bytes 14,411 Bytes
OpenType - None TrueType - glyf, head, hhea, hmtx, loca, maxp
Table 4. Font file composition after removing unused hmtx entries.
