You can try something like this, at the command line: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
evidently, the new compactPDF() function in R 2.13 does something very similar. -Aaron On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19/05/2011 11:14 AM, Layman123 wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> My data consists of a system of nearly 75000 roads, available as a >> shapefile. When I plot the road system, by adding the individual roads with >> 'lines' and store it as a pdf-file with 'pdf' I get a file of size 13 MB. >> This is way too large to add it in my LaTeX-document, because there will be >> some more graphics of this type. >> Now I'm curious to learn wheter there is a possibility in R to shrink the >> file size of this graphic? I merely need it in a resolution so that it looks >> "smooth" when printed out. I don't know much about the storage of R >> graphics, but maybe there is a way to change the way the file is stored >> perhaps as a pixel image? > > > There are several possibilities. You can use a bitmapped device (e.g. png()) > to save the image; pdflatex can include those. > > You can compress the .pdf file using an external tool like pdftk (or do it > internally in R 2.14.x, coming soon). > > There are probably others... > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
