Le Sun, 29 May 2011 21:26:57 +0100, Graham Smith <myotis...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> I'm looking for some advice on format and quality specification for > exporting graphs from R to go into a Lyx Document, that will end up as a > printed document. > > At the moment each graph using the R defaults is a 3 - 4mb PDF, and I am > using them as 9cm x 9cm in the document. > > Has anyone got a standard spec that they use for exporting from R to > keep the file size as small as possible while still giving high quality > > I am less than half way through a document which currently has 122 > graphs (each 9cm x 9cm) in it that gives me a PDF of half a Gb. I can > compress the PDF with a Nautilus script down to 11Mb, but it would make > sense to export graphs that were as small as possible. At half a Gb, > the preview scrolls really badly on my PC. > > Many thanks, > > Graham Hi, You could try the R package tikzDevice which generates PGF/Tikz graphics suitable for inclusion in your Latex/Lyx document. Contrary to pictex which is deprecated, tikzDevice will provide you with full color high quality graphics suitable for compilation with pdflatex. Moreover, pdf documents that include such graphics seem to be rather small. Regards, -- Renaud Lacour <ren...@home-dn.net>
