[ncl-talk] 12-panel plot is 28Mb

[Rick Brownrigg]

I'm not sure offhand.  Are you able to share your dataset?  Or perhaps a
snapshot?

Rick

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Mary Barth <barthm at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Rick.
> I just ran it, assigning wks to "oldps". It created an 18 Mb file.
> They are just line plots, with lines being assigned "red", "blue",
> "black", "forestgreen". Maybe there's too much extra of plot axes, etc.,
> since I'm plotting each line individually and plotting standard deviations
> individually too, instead of plotting all lines with one call.
>
> Do you agree? If so, then what's the best way to include the standard
> deviation lines?
> -- Mary
>
>
>
>
> On 10/29/15 9:38 AM, Rick Brownrigg wrote:
>
> Hi Mary,
>
> If your script does not make use of the newer color model (ex:
> transparency or >256 colors, per-contour map colortables, etc), then you
> might have better luck using the original postscript driver, which is
> accessed as "oldps".
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Mary Barth <barthm at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have created a 12-panel plot, which looks great for my paper, but is 28
>> Mb in size as a *ps file. Is there anything I can do in my ncl script to
>> make it smaller? The script is attached.
>>
>> BTW, running ps2pdf afterwards converted the ps file to a 5.4 Mb pdf file.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mary
>>
>>
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