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<pu...@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.kee...@shenick.com> wrote: >>> Gabor, >>> >>> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried pdftk but it made very >>> little difference. >>> >>> Regards, >>> David. >>> -- >>> [David Keegan david.kee...@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.kee...@shenick.com >>> > wrote: >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
