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Light eps figures
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D.:
I think we need a little more detail. I'm assuming you're talking about making eps files that are small (light as in weight), or do you mean color wise lighter?
Bert
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I think we need a little more detail. I'm assuming you're talking about making eps files that are small (light as in weight), or do you mean color wise lighter?
Bert
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Hi Bert
Thank you for your answer. As you say, I mean light as in weight, i.e. small in Bytes. The fact is that I need to manipulate (add labels, put figures together,... nothing really difficult) some eps figures previously done with Mathematica and for this I am using Illustrator10 (it was the only way I found to do it without losing quality).
However when I save them, they get quite heavy (in Bytes). When I do that I try to select the simplest possibilities, but I am not an expert at all in the software. I have also tried to make an eps2eps which unloads them quite a lot but then the package psfrag of LaTeX (which is what I use to transform labels into whatever I want in a TeX form) does not recognise the labels.
I hope that this is clear enough. Otherwise I can explain further.
Best regards,
D.
Thank you for your answer. As you say, I mean light as in weight, i.e. small in Bytes. The fact is that I need to manipulate (add labels, put figures together,... nothing really difficult) some eps figures previously done with Mathematica and for this I am using Illustrator10 (it was the only way I found to do it without losing quality).
However when I save them, they get quite heavy (in Bytes). When I do that I try to select the simplest possibilities, but I am not an expert at all in the software. I have also tried to make an eps2eps which unloads them quite a lot but then the package psfrag of LaTeX (which is what I use to transform labels into whatever I want in a TeX form) does not recognise the labels.
I hope that this is clear enough. Otherwise I can explain further.
Best regards,
D.
jconingham
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This might sound silly but... are you working with vectors?
D.:
One very effective way to make file sizes smaller, is to delete all unused brushes, styles, swatches, symbols, that kind of stuff. Just click on various palette flyouts, and click Select All Unused, then Delete, say Yes to the warning dialog, there you go.
Keep in mind, that even if a palette is not open, the contents still weigh down the file (I.E. even if you're not using symbols, and don't have the symbol palette up, the default symbols will still be saved with the file).
Another step would be to link raster images rather than embedding them. If you have any embedded jpegs, for example, they are used in the file in uncompressed form (A jpeg that's 300K on disk can easily be 3M in an Illustrator file). Linked files won't swell up until the file is opened and the raster image is called upon.
HTH
Bert
Bert Philippus -
One very effective way to make file sizes smaller, is to delete all unused brushes, styles, swatches, symbols, that kind of stuff. Just click on various palette flyouts, and click Select All Unused, then Delete, say Yes to the warning dialog, there you go.
Keep in mind, that even if a palette is not open, the contents still weigh down the file (I.E. even if you're not using symbols, and don't have the symbol palette up, the default symbols will still be saved with the file).
Another step would be to link raster images rather than embedding them. If you have any embedded jpegs, for example, they are used in the file in uncompressed form (A jpeg that's 300K on disk can easily be 3M in an Illustrator file). Linked files won't swell up until the file is opened and the raster image is called upon.
HTH
Bert
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