[OS X TeX] Compressing pdf graphics

[Luci Ellis]

Dear Denis,

On 22/5/07 7:14 PM, "Chabot Denis" <chabotd at globetrotter.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Recently I posted a question to the R mailing list because pdf plots
> I make with it can be larger than png files when a lot of objects are
> plotted (but offer much better quality, of course, in particular for
> zooming in on details).
> 
> What prompted my question was the fact that Acrobat can shrink these
> graphics (or my LaTeX documents that contain lots of them) quite a
> bit, and I was hoping there was a compression option I did not know
> about.
> 
> I'm including a reply I received because it suggests this compression
> can be done within LaTeX.
> 
> Do you know how to do this?

Perhaps not within LaTeX, but certainly within OS X.

http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/smaller_pdf.html

Hope that helps.

Luci



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