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I do this too. Be careful relying on it in an automated way, though: it will make some PDFs bigger.
by mkl 5y ago
I do this too. Be careful relying on it in an automated way, though: it will make some PDFs bigger.
- thehappypm 5y agoThis is so true. You can’t really win in general. High res images are going to look pretty good in PDF/print. SVG is going to look amazing, infinitely zoom able and sharp at every level. You’d think raster images are bigger, right? Well, SVGs of graphs can be huge.. imagine a scatter plot of a million data points. That’s roughly same sized PNG as the scatter plot with 1000 points at the same resolution. But, a million points is going to be both slow to draw and take a lot of space!
- jbay808 5y agoWouldn't a good automation process compare the output and input filesizes and return whichever was smaller?
- mkl 5y agoYes, and I have a script that does that, which is what I mean by being careful.