Hi Graham, If I understand well your message, your plots have a lot of data points and since each point is represented as a vector object, the vector based formats like eps or pdf become huge. For such graphics, I generally choose to flatten them using a bitmap format (jpg or png) with a sufficient density (like 300 dpi). This gives relatively small size (in comparison with the vector format, and acceptable print quality). These bitmap formats are normally compatible with pdflatex. Otherwise, you can always convert them to eps (but they will be just bitmaps enclosed in an vector enveloppe) for using with a dvips based chain.
I hope this can help you. Murat 2011/5/29 Graham Smith <myotis...@gmail.com> > I'm looking for some advice on format and quality specification for > exporting graphs from R to go into a Lyx Document, that will end up as a > printed document. > > At the moment each graph using the R defaults is a 3 - 4mb PDF, and I am > using them as 9cm x 9cm in the document. > > Has anyone got a standard spec that they use for exporting from R to keep > the file size as small as possible while still giving high quality > > I am less than half way through a document which currently has 122 graphs > (each 9cm x 9cm) in it that gives me a PDF of half a Gb. I can compress the > PDF with a Nautilus script down to 11Mb, but it would make sense to export > graphs that were as small as possible. At half a Gb, the preview scrolls > really badly on my PC. > > Many thanks, > > Graham > > > > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) Centre de la Vieille Charité 2, rue de la Charité 13236 Marseille cedex 02 Bureau 320 Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr www : http:/yildizoglu.co.cc http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu ______________________________________________
