[pstricks] Re: pstricks digest, Vol 1 #65 - 2 msgs

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 04 April 2002 21:36, juan antonio jimenez martinez wrote:
> Hi, what I do under linux is convert the dvi file to ps and then to
> pdf, I think that you know how to convert from dvi to ps, in linux
> there is a command that convert ps files to pdf, you should type in
> your command line something like this:
>
> ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf
> and the result is a pdf file more small
> I hope it would be usefull
>
> Juan Antonio
>
>
Technically ps2pdf is part of the ghostscript suite, but yes it is 
usually included in most versions of Linux.

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> >Subject: pstricks digest, Vol 1 #65 - 2 msgs
> >Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 13:00:35 +0200
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> >    1. Defining and using Postscript procedures with pstricks?
> > (Remi Coulom)
> >    2. Re: Defining and using Postscript procedures with pstricks?
> > (Denis Girou)
> >
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> >Message: 1
> >Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 21:01:13 +0200
>
> From: Remi Coulom <Remi.Coulom at free.fr>
>
> >To: pstricks at tug.org
> >Subject: [pstricks] Defining and using Postscript procedures with
> > pstricks?
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >In a very big automatically generated pstricks figure I made, I
> > have thousands
> >of pslines that all have the same pstricks options and the same
> > structure: \psline(x0,y0)(x1,y1)
> >\psline(x1,y1)(x2,y2)
> >
> >My problem is that it generates a huge postscript file. What I
> > would like to do
> >is replace the long code generated by pstricks by more compact
> > postscript. For
> >instance, it would be nice to have some code like
> >x0 y0 x1 y1 x2 y2 /MyMacro
> >in the ps file. I believe it would make my file about 10 times
> > smaller, which
> >would be very nice.
> >
> >I'd appreciate very much if someone could give me indications on
> > how to do this.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Rémi
> >
> >--__--__--
> >
> >Message: 2
> >Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:05:03 +0200
> >To: PSTricks mailing list <pstricks at tug.org>
> >Subject: Re: [pstricks] Defining and using Postscript procedures
> > with pstricks?
>
> From: Denis Girou <Denis.Girou at idris.fr>
>
> > >>>>> "Remi.Coulom" == Remi Coulom <Remi.Coulom at free.fr> writes:
> >
> >     Remi.Coulom> In a very big automatically generated pstricks
> > figure I made, I have thousands
> >     Remi.Coulom> of pslines that all have the same pstricks
> > options and the same structure:
> >     Remi.Coulom> \psline(x0,y0)(x1,y1)
> >     Remi.Coulom> \psline(x1,y1)(x2,y2)
> >
> >     Remi.Coulom> My problem is that it generates a huge
> > postscript file. What I would like to do
> >     Remi.Coulom> is replace the long code generated by pstricks
> > by more compact postscript. For
> >     Remi.Coulom> instance, it would be nice to have some code
> > like Remi.Coulom> x0 y0 x1 y1 x2 y2 /MyMacro
> >     Remi.Coulom> in the ps file. I believe it would make my file
> > about 10 times smaller, which
> >     Remi.Coulom> would be very nice.
> >
> >   You are right: using thousands of \psline commands will create
> > very huge and specially not optimized files.
> >
> >   The alternative is simple: you have rather to use the \lineto
> > macro, fixing at the beginning the first point with the \moveto
> > macro. They must be used both inside a \pscustom macro. See pages
> > 32, 36 and 39 of the manual and the following basic example.
> >
> >   On this test, we have a ratio of 8.6.
> >
> >   If you really need to still decrease the resulting file, you
> > can easily suppress some characters for each point: rather than
> > the PostScript operator
> >"lineto", use the "L" alias that PSTricks define. You will replace
> > six characters by only one, which give you 5 x N characters less.
> > On my test, we got this time your expected ratio of 10...
> >
> >
> >\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> >
> >\usepackage{multido}
> >\usepackage{pstricks}
> >
> >\pagestyle{empty}
> >
> >\begin{document}
> >
> >% Resulting file: 1300 KB
> >% \multido{\i=1+1}{5000}{\psline(1,1)(2,2)}
> >
> >
> >% Resulting file:  150 KB
> >%\pscustom{%
> >%  \moveto(1,1)
> >%  \multido{\i=1+1}{5000}{\lineto(2,2)}}
> >
> >
> >% Resulting file:  130 KB
> >
> >% D.G. modification begin - Apr.  2, 2002
> >% \def\lineto{\pst at onecoor{lineto}}%
> >% D.G. modification end
> >
> >\makeatletter
> >\pscustom{%
> >   \def\lineto{\pst at onecoor{L}}%
> >   \moveto(1,1)
> >   \multido{\i=1+1}{5000}{\lineto(2,2)}}
> >\makeatother
> >
> >\end{document}
> >
> >
> >D.G.
> >
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