A minimal PDF
The smallest complete file: a page, and shapes drawn on it.
A page set in a font from 1990
A face in Adobe's oldest format, read for its widths and carried into the file whole. Every figure the page states about it is read out of the font, not written in by hand.
A print shop that has been buying type for twenty years owns a library in Adobe's first font format, and nothing else reads it any more. This engine does. It opens the font, works out how wide every letter is from the letter's own drawing, and puts the whole font inside the document so the page comes out the same on any machine.
Everything the page says about the face — its name, how many drawings it holds, the box they stand in, the thickness of a downstroke, where an underline goes — is read out of the font at the moment the page is drawn, never written in by hand. The page also says plainly what this kind of font does differently: it travels whole, where every other font travels only the letters you actually used.
What this example shows
- A font from 1990, read and carried into the file whole.
- Every width read from the letter's own drawing: no side file needed.
- What the font says about itself, printed on the page it drew.
The code, in full
The same document is written twice, once in each language. Both files are shown in full, with the code coloured on the server, and can be copied in one click.
The document itself
The same document is written in each of these languages. Open the one you want to look at.
What this document weighs
This document weighs 51,153 bytes.
The team wrote this example after measuring the documents above, so there is no earlier figure to set beside it. See every document measured.
Examples near this one
Making the file smaller
The same document written twice, plainly and packed, with what each one weighs and what the packing saved.
Fonts kept inside the file
Text set in a font the file carries inside it, cut down to the letters actually used.
Letters you draw yourself
A tick, a cross and a dash drawn by the program, added to the document as a font, and set among ordinary words.
A page that carries no font
Four faces every reader already draws, set on one page, so the file holds no font at all — and the example weighs the same lines both ways to say what that saves.
A report that lays itself out
A title, a rule, two paragraphs, a heading, a table of twenty-six rows and a footnote, handed over in reading order and broken across two pages by the engine.