Re: the size of a pdf file.

From: Rick Brownrigg <brownrig_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Mar 04 2011 - 09:08:55 MST

Hi Alice,

Its hard to say for certain. In general, it depends on how the plot is drawn, and whether it is comprised of a large number of graphics primitives. Contour plots drawn with the resource ...@cnFilleMode="CellFill" have been known to produce large pdf/ps files; typically in these cases there are millions of sub-pixel sized polygons being generated.

If you really need .pdf format, you might try the new "newpdf" workstation type, as it generally produces 30-50% smaller files. If you don't need .pdf, I'd recommend the "newpng" workstation, as those output files will be much smaller.

Rick

On Mar 3, 2011, at 3:30 AM, Lisi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have draw a pdf file using NCL which contains only one picture and its size reached 163M(a global SLP graphic),and I draw another multi-pages pdf file which contains 28 pages and its size is only 55M.Do you know what is the reason for this?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Best,
>
> Alice
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