[vox-tech] EPS file size

Dylan Beaudette dylan at iici.no-ip.org
Mon Feb 28 10:44:54 PST 2005


Thanks for the advice. Turns out that we were able to get by with the rather 
large EPS file.

On Friday 25 February 2005 11:44 am, Micah Cowan wrote:
> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> >quick question:
> >
> >i have heard about possible ways to make an EPS file smaller...but I can't
> >remember where I heard it, and how to do it.
> >
> >Any ideas?
>
> Well, since PostScript is a programming language, the ways of
> compressing an EPS program are virtually infinite; it's much like
> contests to fit a solution to a given problem into the smallest Perl
> program you can manage.
>
> I'd be happy to take a look at it and offer some small suggestions for
> hand-tuning, if you're interested. I won't be able to actually dig in
> and hand-tune it, though, unless you'd be willing to pay me. ;-)
>
> I won't be checking my e-mail over the weekend, so I'd get to looking at
> it on Monday.
>
> -Micah

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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
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