On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, claudio wrote:
> Hello, I'm writihg my thesis with Lyx, but I get a problem: I need to
> produce images with StarOffice ( they come out as results of a Starcalc
> sheet) and to include in the LyX file I can make tho things :
> 1) export directly in ps, but it's too large ( 3Mb)
> 2) save in tiff (200-300 Kb) and use tiff2ps but the ps is too large (
> 3Mb)
>
> Is possible to reduce the size of the files ps I have with some
> compression tool ?
Hi Claudio,
I have a similar situation, but I don't know if my solution will help you.
I have an electromagnetic simulation program that generates very large ps
files (up to 80MB) for three-dimensional structures. I use the GIMP to
sample the ps file to a desired resolution (this just means that I open
the .ps file inside the GIMP). Then, I convert the file to .gif which
usually results in a file that is less than 250kB. I then use xfig to
create a figure with the .gif file in a picture box, and finally, I export
to eps from xfig. The resulting .eps file can be used in LyX. My 50MB
ps files become 200kB gifs and 500kB to 1MB eps files. Unfortunately, this
may not help to compress your 3MB ps files if they are already efficient.
Thanks. Syrus.
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