Adding some numbers to illustrate my concerns (it's not about the number of expected bug reports but the number of frustrated users...)
On 3/11/09 23:18, Jon wrote:
- Keep the quality of the PDF high even if (in the short term) the
exported file size is large
bug #271695: 632 KB (osx) vs. 24 MB (win32) (EPS export)
bug #431314: 80 KB (osx) vs. 3.8 MB (win32) (PDF export) (and this is only a reduced case of a one-page-document, the original file doesn't even get exported on win32)
- Don't make me remember some hacky 'Path > Object to Path' before
saving as EPS/PS/PDF workaround that goes away when you fix things. This is much uglier marketing wise than a short term file size issue in my opinion.
Without applying this 'hack' when using the current 0.47pre version you get *both* bad text/font quality and even bigger file size when exporting with the 'Convert texts to paths' option:
bug #271695: 2.7 MB (0.46) vs. 411 MB (0.47pre3) (EPS export) (but with lower text/font quality due to bug #388257)
~suv
[ note: for the font embedding issue I don't have comparable file size numbers of exports on linux platforms available ]