Not really a Lyx question, but it has spawned from using Lyx, and Lyx
users are likely to have an appropriate approach.
I have a 20 page Lyx Beamer document that I am compiling as an article
(A4) and a presentation. Both PDFs end up at 2.7Mb.
The bulk of the documents are screen grabs and graphics produced from R.
File sizes for the graphics range from a few kb to almost 1Mb (all PDFs)
for the screenshots.
First question is whether there is any optimisation of file sizes during
the compiling to PDF and the original file sizes don't really matter.
This seems to the case to a certain extent as the total file size for
all the graphics exceeds the 2.7Mb of the final file.
But should I still be trying to reduce the size of the original files.
If so is there a best way of doing this, and is there guidance somewhere
on target sizes and resolutions for different purposes.
It seems an obvious and recurring question that people might have, but
googling seems to just throw up lots about web pages. So I would be
interested if any Lyx users have established some routine for managing
this problem.
I am using Ubuntu 9.1, most of the time.
Many thanks,
Graham
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Graham M Smith
