Re: Size of produced eps

[Gunnar <gunix@comhem.se>]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 18.37, Jacques L'helgoualc'h wrote:
> Andrew D. Hwang wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Gunnar wrote:
> > > I just wonder how the size of the produced eps-file can be so large.
> > > From a 731 byte file to 113 kb. eps.
> >
> > Dear Gunnar,
> >
> > elaps runs the command "dvips -f [...]" to create (encapsulated)
> > PostScript, and the huge output file size is a real annoyance. I'm pretty
> > sure there are PostScript experts subscribed to the list; anyone have a
> > fix for this? :)
>
> I'm not a PostScript expert, but
>
>  sed -i -e '/^%%BeginPreview/,/^%%EndPreview/d' Gunnar-example.ps
>
> reduces the size to 40K ; then there is the font part...

So it would perhaps be better just to produce eepic files and include them in 
my LaTeX document?