[OS X TeX] Large Figure in Document? (and slow response of TeXShop)

[Claus Gerhardt]

512MB of RAM seems to be ridiculously low. When my machine has  
started up about 700MB are immediately used and my experience with  
various G4 and G5 have convinced me that 1.5GB should be the minimum  
amount of RAM for a fairly smooth behaviour of your computer. If you  
perform memory intensive tasks, however,  this amount won't be  
sufficient.

Claus

On Nov 13, 2005, at 0:47, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote:

> I am writing a paper with a large figure of 25 MB in eps format. After
> compiling, the viewer of TeXShop took a long long long time to draw
> the figure on the screen. After several runs of compilation (the paper
> is still in writing), TeXShop essentially becomes unresponsive, and I
> have to force quit from Dock.
>
> Is there anyway to improve the situation?
>
> My system is 10.4.3, with 512 MB memory.
>
> I also tried the same document in WinEdt on Windows, the performance
> actually is way better ... (The window machine tested has 1GB memory.
> Not sure if this makes difference.)
>
> I appreciate any suggestions in advance.
>
> JT
>
> PS. The eps figure is merely several simple black and white curves
> consisting of a huge amount of data points. I wonder if there's anyway
> to compress the figure?
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