Re: Convert all graphics to reduce file size?
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- Subject: [mg43549] Re: Convert all graphics to reduce file size?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:42:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
and you are sure, that a 400 x 400 RGB bitmap is smaller than
the PostScript code for
Graphics[Line[{{0,0},{1,1}}]]
??
Regards
Jens
Jim Jennings wrote:
>
> I have a notebook that creates a large amount of graphics cells and
> when saved the notebook can be very big. However, I don't need to keep
> the postscript for each graphics cell when the notebook is saved;
> bitmaps will be fine.
>
> I know how to use the Cell->Convert To->Bitmap menu command to convert
> selected graphics cells to Bitmap form. This greatly reduces the size
> of the selected cells, but it is a pain to manually select each group
> of graphics cells, one at a time, for conversion. If I select all
> cells and convert, then *everything*, including things like Standard
> Form cells, will get converted to Bitmap form. This is not what I
> want.
>
> Is there a way to automatically convert *all* graphics cells, but
> *only* graphics cells, before saving a notebook?
>
> I am running Mathematica version 4 on Mac OS X. I hope to upgrade to
> version 5 soon, but I will be stuck in version 4 for a while...
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Jim Jennings, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin
> reply to jim dot jennings at beg dot utexas dot edu