Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread Stephen Tucker
There was a previous post about this also: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/05/17475.html I was able to use bitmap(,type="pdfwrite") on Ubuntu Linux but had trouble getting it to work on Windows. For now, it's kind of kludgey but I have in my .Rprofle (or .Rprofile.site on Windows)

Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Eduardo Leoni wrote: 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 Eduardo, It is not a good idea in gen

Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread 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 wrote: > Thanks for

Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread Benno Pütz
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

Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread David Keegan
Gabor, Interesting. I have had success compressing the pdf generated by R with pdftk. However when I incorporate that in a pdflatex document it ends up decompressed in the final pdf. Regards, David. -- [David Keegan david.kee...@shenick.com 353 1 2710818] Gabor Grothendieck writes: > I just tr

Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread 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, Ju

Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread David Keegan
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

Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
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 wrote: > > Hi, > > I am generating a large number of graphs with pdf() and > incorporating them in pdf document using pdflatex. > > Accordin

Re: [R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Hi, You could have a look at exporting the pdfs using the Cairo package. cheers, Paul David Keegan schreef: Hi, I am generating a large number of graphs with pdf() and incorporating them in pdf document using pdflatex. According to the pdf() help: 'pdf' writes uncompressed PDF. It is pr

[R] PDF Compression

2009-07-30 Thread David Keegan
Hi, I am generating a large number of graphs with pdf() and incorporating them in pdf document using pdflatex. According to the pdf() help: 'pdf' writes uncompressed PDF. It is primarily intended for producing PDF graphics for inclusion in other documents, and PDF-includers such as 'p