[pstricks] PSTricks and the size of pdf files

[Herbert Voss]

Paul Smith wrote:

> I have produced a 13 pages presentation with beamer class, which
> contains only  three simple PSTricks pictures and I am surprised with
> the relative large (not huge, though) size of the pdf file (ps2pdf +
> pdfcrop). Is there some way of optimizing the size of the pdf file? Or
> the source of this size inefficiency is pdfcrop?

the best way is still to use VTeX or ps4pdf. But the size
of your pdf depends to your graphic. When it is created
by calculating a function or something similiar, then
the pdf increases dramatically, because it doesn't understand
PS arithmetic and has to save the single dots. 20 Megs or
more for a pdf is possible ...

Examples:
a PSTricks presentation:
-rw-r--r--   1 voss users 17166175 2004-10-21 17:54 Darm.pdf
-rw-r--r--   1 voss users  1661174 2004-11-14 08:50 Darm.ps

pst-geo:
-rw-r--r--  1 voss users 3036295 2004-11-14 08:55 italiaII.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 voss users  376726 2004-11-14 08:55 italiaII.ps


Herbert


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