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Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size [message #90460 is a reply to message #90442]

Tue, 03 March 2015 09:12

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On Monday, March 2, 2015 at 9:00:05 PM UTC-7, Haojie Xu wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I use IDL functional graphic to create eps file inserted to latex
> but however, I found the size of eps file is way too large.
> say,
> IDL> x = [0:100:0.1]
> IDL> pl = plot(x,sin(x),'-b')
> IDL> pl.Save,'test_sin.eps'
>
> it ends up with a file like 46Megabytes file.
> For pdf output file, it seems okay, reasonable size but I found preview has some issue to opensome pdf output file from IDL.
>
> Is there any suggestion that I can use functional graphics to produce elegant eps file?
>
>
> Thanks
> H

Hi H,

It looks like it is defaulting to "bitmap" format instead of "vector". I don't know why. When I run your commands I get a tiny EPS file (only about 24 KB). Try forcing it to use vector:

pl.Save,'test_sin.eps',bitmap=0

Cheers,
Chris
ExelisVIS

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		EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: Haojie Xu on Mon, 02 March 2015 20:00
		Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 03 March 2015 09:12
		Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: Haojie Xu on Tue, 03 March 2015 09:35
		Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 03 March 2015 10:38
		Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: Haojie Xu on Tue, 03 March 2015 10:54
		Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: David Fanning on Tue, 03 March 2015 11:08
		Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: Haojie Xu on Tue, 03 March 2015 12:54
		Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 03 March 2015 12:11
		Re: EPS output from functional graphic 'LARGE' size By: Haojie Xu on Tue, 03 March 2015 12:51

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