| PS file is huge! [message #71031] |
Tue, 25 May 2010 14:25  |
Justin Cantrell
Messages: 5
Registered: May 2010
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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
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| Re: PS file is huge! [message #71079 is a reply to message #71031] |
Thu, 27 May 2010 15:33  |
Karl[1]
Messages: 79
Registered: October 2005
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On May 27, 10:24 am, Ed Hyer <ejh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 25, 2:25 pm, Justin Cantrell <justinrcantr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Why are my PS files getting so large? I'm doing a simple plot of ~25
>> points and the file size is 7.5MB!
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> Something is not as it seems.
> IDL> HELP,dist,fe,x,two,three,half
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> Also, your code snippet doesn't include SET_PLOT,'PS'.
Yes, it would be useful to post a standalone piece of code that people
could actually run.
Other thoughts:
If you know PostScript language and/or have some patience, you can
inspect the contents of the PS file and see if there are any obvious
clues. And those clues would be:
Text is stroked out instead of drawn with fonts - search for a text
string like "Distance". If you do not find it, the chars might be
stroked out. I doubt that this is the case, since there are only about
20 total chars and I don't think that the PS driver can do that
anyway.
Also possibility is your use of linestyle. The PS driver *should*
generate PS commands to tell the PS renderer to use a programmable
linestyle. But if it instead chose to issue commands to draw the line
style pattern, one segment at a time, you'll get a ton of move/draw
commands. Try drawing solid lines to see if that helps.
Or just look over the file and try to determine what sort of thing is
taking up all the space.
Finally, try to isolate it by removing some of the properties/
attributes you are setting and skipping over some of your commands
until the file size drops sharply. Tedious, but not so bad in the IDL
environment.
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| Re: PS file is huge! [message #71087 is a reply to message #71031] |
Thu, 27 May 2010 09:24 |
MarioIncandenza
Messages: 231
Registered: February 2005
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On May 25, 2:25 pm, Justin Cantrell <justinrcantr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are my PS files getting so large? I'm doing a simple plot of ~25
> points and the file size is 7.5MB!
Something is not as it seems.
IDL> HELP,dist,fe,x,two,three,half
Also, your code snippet doesn't include SET_PLOT,'PS'.
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| Re: PS file is huge! [message #71104 is a reply to message #71031] |
Wed, 26 May 2010 10:06 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Justin Cantrell writes:
> Ok, I dropped the plotsym and changed to psym=6. File size is still
> 7.6MB. I'm lost.
Humm. Me, too. :-(
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thos speakest truth.")
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