filesize of EPS is too large, how to reduce it?

[ROBERTO]

I make contourplots and then export them with
Export["/home/file.eps",%]
This give me very large EPS, i.e. if PlotPoints is set to 200 I get a
5MB EPS. I tried to convert the EPS or reduce it with tools available in
linux, imagemagick, eps2eps, ghostscript but the visual quality of the
result is crap.
I imagine there is a way to produce compressed EPS exploiting Postscrit
Level 2 specifications or there's a "standard" path to follow to go from
ContourPlot to an journal-submittable-size EPS (less than 100Kb)

How can I get a EPS file less than 100K for a ContourPlot with
PlotPoints->200 ???

Thanks you all.
Roberto

[Igor C. Antonio]

Post by ROBERTO
I make contourplots and then export them with
Export["/home/file.eps",%]
This give me very large EPS, i.e. if PlotPoints is set to 200 I get a
5MB EPS. I tried to convert the EPS or reduce it with tools available in
linux, imagemagick, eps2eps, ghostscript but the visual quality of the
result is crap.
I imagine there is a way to produce compressed EPS exploiting Postscrit
Level 2 specifications or there's a "standard" path to follow to go from
ContourPlot to an journal-submittable-size EPS (less than 100Kb)
How can I get a EPS file less than 100K for a ContourPlot with
PlotPoints->200 ???
Thanks you all.
Roberto

Roberto,

You haven't provided an example, so my suggestions may or may not apply.

There are some options available through the File > Save Selection As > EPS menu
that are not available through Export[] in Mathematica 6.0 (this has been
address in the next version of Mathematica).

Please take a look at the options described in this post:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/msg/6b0387ea4f8732d4

from this newgroup thread:
version 6 Plot3D exporting results in HUGE files
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_thread/thread/a669fd00915cbbf5/6b0387ea4f8732d4?#

Try them out and see if they help.

Also, please note that PlotPoints->200 in V6 is not the same as PlotPoints->200
in V5.X due to automatic adaptive sampling
(http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin6/content/HighImpactAdaptiveVisualization/).
It might be the case that you can decrease the number of points and still get
satisfying graphics.

Thanks,

Igor C. Antonio
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