LaTeX.org

Ok, I'll post my doubt there.
Thanks!

and which LaTeX dist?

and which CM? There are two, CM and CM super.

might be an idea to post a minimal example then we can compare


I use debian etch with texlive-full (2005). The versions of the programs I don't know at this moment, now I am at home using Windows.

I've made tests with 5 or 6 ...

I use standard cm fonts. The default fonts in LaTeX.

I think that phi was right and it has something to do with the font type. I've searching in google on how to use CFF fonts with pdftex (I've read that using them can result in 2 or 3 times smaller file sizes), but I still don't know anything ...

It is possible that modern versions of Ghostscript achieve a higher degree in PDF optimization than the current version of PDFTeX.

If so, why do you recommend me to use pdflatex instead of latex?
(With latex I get smaller files).

The only thing that it's annoying me is that I don't understand ...

Hello! It's the first time that I use this forum, and I think I'll use quite often.
See you!

Hello,
I don't understand why my PDF documents created via latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf are much smaller in size than those created via pdflatex.
For example, one PDF document compiled with latex is about 200 kB, and the same with pdflatex is about 480 kB.
Both PDF documents seem exactly the same ...