[OS X TeX] Compressing pdf graphics

[David Watson]

I don't have any idea how to compress within (La)TeX, but you might  
want to use the postscript output capability of R combined with the  
command-line utilities ps2pdf, ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, or ps2pdf14  
provided with Ghostscript. Depending on your version of ghostscript,  
you can find some documentation on these at

      file:///usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.54/doc/Ps2pdf.htm

(you may need to change the 8.54 to whatever version you have installed)

I did a quick test on a simple plot and found some size advantages  
over the pdf() function in R.

On May 22, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Chabot Denis wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Recently I posted a question to the R mailing list because pdf  
> plots I make with it can be larger than png files when a lot of  
> objects are plotted (but offer much better quality, of course, in  
> particular for zooming in on details).
>
> What prompted my question was the fact that Acrobat can shrink  
> these graphics (or my LaTeX documents that contain lots of them)  
> quite a bit, and I was hoping there was a compression option I did  
> not know about.
>
> I'm including a reply I received because it suggests this  
> compression can be done within LaTeX.
>
> Do you know how to do this?


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