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Re: PS file is huge! [message #71030 is a reply to message #71029]

Tue, 25 May 2010 14:41

David Fanning
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Justin Cantrell writes:

> Why are my PS files getting so large? I'm doing a simple plot of ~25
> points and the file size is 7.5MB!
> Here's my code:
>
> DEVICE,file=string('cluster1.ps'),bits=8
> plot,dist,fe,psym=8,yrange=[-0.2,0.3],ytitle='[Fe/H]',xtitle ='Distance
> (pc)',charthick=4,thick=3,symsize=1,ystyle=1
> oplot,x,two,linestyle=2
> oplot,x,three,linestyle=2
> oplot,x,half,linestyle=2
> xyouts,500,two+.005,'2X',charthick=4
> xyouts,500,three+.005,'3X',charthick=4
> xyouts,500,half+.005,'0.5X',charthick=4
>
> temp=findgen(11)+1
> device,/close

I presume because of all those polygons you are
using as your symbol. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: PS file is huge! By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 May 2010 14:53
		Re: PS file is huge! By: Justin Cantrell on Tue, 25 May 2010 14:43
		Re: PS file is huge! By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 May 2010 14:41
		Re: PS file is huge! By: Justin Cantrell on Wed, 26 May 2010 10:01

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