On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> when I compress my EPS figures according to > http://www.lyx.org/help/floats/eps.html and insert them in LyX, the size > of the global exported postscript file is as big as if I did not > compress the EPS figures. yes, because lyx or latex will decompress the compressed-EPS if you export the lyx document into postscript or pdf (with ps2pdf). That is (as I have read in one of latex documentation (about graphicx.sty) in order to saving the space when you save your document as latex or lyx. > I thought that inserting compressed EPS figures would reduce the final > document size too ? no, if you export as postscript. When you need a small final document size try using pdf output. > Or I am just doing something wrong ? no, what you have done is right. Wayan
