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Is there software that minimizes the fonts by removing code points that aren't used in the document?


This is a standard feature of the PDF format.

Normally all PDF documents include only the glyphs corresponding to the code points actually used in the text rendered with that font.

That is why you can go for instance to any site of a vendor of fonts and you can download freely a PDF sample text of an expensive font. You can easily extract the font from the sample PDF, but it will be useless, as it will contain only the few letters that had been used in the sample text.




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