Re: [PyX-user] writeEPSfile produces huge postscript files

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

On 27.07.04, Roberto Di Leonardo wrote:
> when writing to EPS I'm getting 500k files even
> if only plotting axes and labels. Most of the PostScript
> file contains Computer Modern fonts specification. What I don't
> understand is why a latex document containing the
> same number of fonts is only 20k.
> Is this the normal behavior?

The problem might be, that you include the full fonts, while you're
using only a very few glyphs per font. You should consider compiling
the t1strip extension module, which provides font-stripping taken out
of the pdftex source. Read the setup.cfg for details about enabling
extension modules.


André

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