latex and memory related

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,
        I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file.

        The file looks like this:

        \documentclass{article}
        \begin{document}

        \setlength{\unitlength}{4144sp}%
        %
        \begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
        \gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
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            \fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
              \selectfont}%
              \fi\endgroup%
              \begin{picture}(3804,2679)(2104,-5338)
              \thinlines
              \special{ps: gsave 0 0 0 
setrgbcolor}\put(2116,-5326){\framebox(3780,2655){}}
              \special{ps: gsave 0 0 0 
setrgbcolor}\put(3331,-4786){\framebox(1395,1620){}}
              \end{picture}

        \end{document}

        But, the latex command used about 70MB ram when it process the file, 
and the dvips used just about the same ram. See below:
        3916 shao      10   0 85788  83M   580 R       0 93.3 66.7   3:13 dvips

        Is this normal?? What is the recommanded way to export the stuff from 
xfig to latex??

        Thanks.
Shao.

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