Barry
If (encapsulated) postscript is encoded as a series of lines, shapes and
boxes then file sizes are generall small. An example is figures created in
xfig produce tiny postscript. However if you convert from a bitmap based
image (of which I believe, with some qualifications to what I say, gif
is), then the conversion has to be to bitmap type postscript. Try this to
convince yourself:
xfig -> eps -> gif -> eps
File size small bigger bigger
If you gif was originally created in application that can directly export
postscript you may see a better result.
Hope this helps
James
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Barry Kauler wrote:
> Does anyone know the technical reason why, when I
> convert a bit-map image to EPS, it becomes enormous.
>
> For example, I used gif2eps on a 25K GIF and it became
> a 1.9M EPS file!
>
> Regards,
> Barry Kauler
>
>
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