On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote:
On 10/23/2009 06:07 AM, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
I wish to save a scatter plot comprising approx. 2 million points
in order to include it in a LaTeX document.
Using 'pdf(...)' produces a file of size about 20 MB, which is
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Subject: Re: [R] PDF too large, PNG bad quality
* Message by -Greg Snow- from Thu 2009-10-22:
If you want to go the pdf route, then you need to find some way
to reduce redundant information while still getting the main
points of the plot. With so many point, I would suggest
On 10/23/2009 06:07 AM, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
I wish to save a scatter plot comprising approx. 2 million points
in order to include it in a LaTeX document.
Using 'pdf(...)' produces a file of size about 20 MB, which is
useless.
Using 'cairo_pdf(...)' produces a smaller file, around 3 MB. This
Hello Lasse,
Why not try this?
(1) Create 20MB PDF from R
(2) use convert command in linux, examples below:
convert -resize 50% 20mbfile.pdf smallerfile.pdf
convert -resize 75% 20mbfile.pdf image.png
Ghostscript can help you as well for conversion! Using vector formats
(pdf,ps,eps) are good
I wish to save a scatter plot comprising approx. 2 million points
in order to include it in a LaTeX document.
Using 'pdf(...)' produces a file of size about 20 MB, which is
useless.
Using 'cairo_pdf(...)' produces a smaller file, around 3 MB. This
is still too large. Not only that the document
Dear Lasse,
This won't answer your specific questions and I apologize for that.
AFAIK, pdf() produces uncompressed PDFs only. But you could use tools
like pdftk to compress your PDFs. About the PNGs, you can always set
the 'res' argument to improve resolution, but it won't beat the PDFs.
greg.s...@imail.org
801.408.8111
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Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:07 PM
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Subject: [R] PDF too large, PNG bad quality
I wish to save
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Greg Snow greg.s...@imail.org wrote:
The problem with the pdf files is that they are storing the information for
every one of your points, even the ones that are overplotted by other points.
The png file is smaller because it only stores information on which
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From: b.rowling...@googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowling...@googlemail.com]
On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:43 PM
To: Greg Snow
Cc: Lasse Kliemann; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] PDF too large, PNG bad quality
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009
* Message by -Greg Snow- from Thu 2009-10-22:
If you want to go the pdf route, then you need to find some way
to reduce redundant information while still getting the main
points of the plot. With so many point, I would suggest
looking at the hexbin package (bioconductor I think) as one
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