On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Graham M Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
A suggestion Graham: try to produce vectorial graphics with R (and not screen-shots); this will reduce the size of your graphics and improve dramatically their quality. Paul
