You need not buy Acrobat. There are two free software programs that will compress pdf files:
http://www.cutepdf.com http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ (and in particular GSView) They both allow several levels of compression. Thanks, --sundar Chabot Denis said the following on 5/22/2007 3:32 AM: > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
