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Re: Re: best way to save 3D plot as .eps for latex document?

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  • Subject: [mg101940] Re: [mg101879] Re: best way to save 3D plot as .eps for latex document?
  • From: Filippo Miatto <miatto at gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:09:52 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <h41f6m$rjc$1@smc.vnet.net> <200907202320.TAA25956@smc.vnet.net>

Until it's ready you can recompile it with the 'draft' option, so it  
will use a blank rectangle in place of pictures.
it's much faster.
Filippo


On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:20 AM, Peter Breitfeld wrote:

> summer wrote:
>
>> I have to put a 3D Mathematica plot in a latex document so I save the
>> plot by right clicking it and saving as .eps. The problem is that  
>> if I
>> save as vector graphics the file is 14MB, if I save as BMP inside the
>> eps, the file is 2MB still too big and it takes too much time each
>> time I'm recompiling the file.
>>
>> Is there a way to efficiently save the plot as .eps so that
>> 1. the file is small
>> 2. quality is still acceptable
>> 3. recompiling the latex is fast
>>
>> What are the necessery steps/settings that work best for that?
>>
>
> The best (?) way I found is to use "PrintSelection" and to print it  
> into
> a .pdf file. Then take a Graphics Program (on my Mac I use
> GraphicsConverter for this) and save it as a .eps. This gives good
> looking graphics of very moderate size.
>
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