[R] Reducing the size of pdf graphics files produced with R
Gavin Simpson
gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk
Thu Feb 7 12:47:07 CET 2008
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On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:52 +0100, Paul Hiemstra wrote:
> 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
An alternative on Windows and Linux is GSView and Ghostscript:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
Using the convert option (File menu) one can use the pdfwrite driver and
set (under properties) CompressPages to TRUE. You can tweak a lot of the
PDF/Distiller preferences here as well.
G
>
> 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
> >
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