Hi all, Maybe a bit late, but I found a way that worked great for me.
In windows, download CutePDF In linux (debian for me), install CUPS and cups-pdf Open your pdf with a viewer and print to CutePDF or cups-pdf. Both support a range of compression options. I use cups-pdf and reduced an R output file of 3.6 mb to 0.9 mb. Much better if you want to include in a Latex article cheers, Paul Chabot Denis wrote: > Hi, > > Without trying to print 1000000 points (see <http:// > finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/42105.html>), I often print > maps for which I do not want to loose too much of coastline detail, > and/or plots with 1000-5000 points (yes, some are on top of each > other, but using transparency (i.e. rgb colors with alpha > information) this actually comes through as useful information. > > But the files are large (not as large as in the thread above of > course, 800 KB to about 2 MB), especially when included in a LaTeX > document by the dozen. > > Acrobat (not the reader, the full program) has an option "reduce file > size". I don't know what it does, but it shrinks most of my plots to > about 30% or original size, and I cannot detect any loss of detail > even when zooming several times. But it is a pain to do this with > Acrobat when you generate many plots... And you need to buy Acrobat. > > Is this something the pdf device could do in a future version? I > tried the "million points" example from the thread above and the 55 > MB file was reduced to 6.9 MB, an even better shrinking I see on my > usual plots. > > > Denis Chabot > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Drs. Paul Hiemstra Department of Physical Geography Faculty of Geosciences University of Utrecht Heidelberglaan 2 P.O. Box 80.115 3508 TC Utrecht Phone: +31302535773 Fax: +31302531145 http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
