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| author | Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> | 2017-02-10 23:50:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> | 2017-02-11 00:01:29 -0700 |
| commit | ea5cffbc6cde2c305ce57cd3d162064291455206 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c2c94eda54ad50cebe56b699a2de209106dbf5a | |
| parent | 7c3e9d7d92b87608355d63f1f7ce1af20e57a54d (diff) | |
document in theming guide that Asciidoctor PDF subsets the font when embedding
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/theming-guide.adoc | 5 |
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diff --git a/docs/theming-guide.adoc b/docs/theming-guide.adoc index 361bf84c..cb716578 100644 --- a/docs/theming-guide.adoc +++ b/docs/theming-guide.adoc @@ -734,6 +734,11 @@ When you execute Asciidoctor PDF, you need to specify the directory where the fo WARNING: Currently, all fonts referenced by the theme need to be present in the directory specified by the `pdf-fontsdir` attribute. +When Asciidoctor PDF creates the PDF, it only embeds the glyphs from the font that are needed to render the characters present in the document. +In other words, Asciidoctor PDF automatically subsets the font. +However, if you're storing the fonts in a repository, you may want to subset the font (for instance, by using FontForge) to reduce the space the font occupies in that storage. +This is simply a personal preference. + You can add any number of fonts to the catalog. Each font must be assigned a unique key, as shown here: |