[R] PDF Compression

[Eduardo Leoni]

PDF created by R is in vector format. If you really want smaller files
you can try creating PNGs instead. With a high enough resolution (e.g.
dpi=600) there won't be much difference in the printed version of your
document.

-eduardo



On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Benno Pütz<puetz at mpipsykl.mpg.de> wrote:
> Thanks for this advice - and to second Gabor's experience: I just
> tried it on a couple of my files and achieved reductions on the order
> of 90% (28.6MB to 4.4MB and 1.5GB to 170MB)!
>
> This file contains lots of small plots but also many scattersmooth()-
> images ...
>
> So I think it does quite well in my case.
>
>        Benno
>
> Am 30.Jul.2009 um 12:21 schrieb Gabor Grothendieck:
>
>> I just tried it with a recent pdf that was generated from R on
>> Windows Vista
>> with "R version 2.9.1 Patched (2009-07-16 r48939)".  This particular
>> one
>> was laden with many graphs and was reduced to 25% of the original
>> size so my experience with that one was that it made a huge
>> difference.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:59 AM, David
>> Keegan<david.keegan at shenick.com> wrote:
>>> Gabor,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried pdftk but it made very
>>> little difference.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> David.
>>> --
>>> [David Keegan david.keegan at shenick.com 353 1 2710818]
>>> Gabor Grothendieck writes:
>>>  > After generating the pdf try this using the free pdftk utilty:
>>>  >
>>>  >    pdftk infile.pdf output outfile.pdf compress
>>>  >
>>>  > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:13 AM, David Keegan<david.keegan at shenick.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>
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