Reducing the Size of Large PDFs

• matplotlib

  36 19,356 10.0 Python

  matplotlib: plotting with Python

  

Oh didn't know about the improved type 42 font support in the new matplotlib! That's good to know and I should check it out.

And good point, the PGF works just as well (results should be identical), but since all the plot information has to be compiled by latex, it ends up ballooning the compilation time of the tex doc and the matplotlib PGF page suggests that you can run into memory issues as well. I was doing this for a thesis with 50+ plots and so still wanted compilation to be fast.

I've suggested this as an improvement to matplotlib, but unlikely to be merged since maybe it's a bit hacky (although it's very similar to what Inkscape's export to LaTeX option does): https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/22297 (the backend file can be found here: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/files/7921801/backe...)

And the gs script is below:

  #!/bin/bash

• pdfsizeopt

  6 714 0.0 Python

  PDF file size optimizer

There is a general PDF shrinker, known as "pdfsizeopt" that is bundled with static builds of gs and a number of other utilities.

It cuts some of our PDFs to 10x smaller, mostly by removing unused fonts (but doubtless also some other magic).

The developer asks for donations for production use from those who can afford it.

https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt

Send donations to the author of pdfsizeopt:

https://flattr.com/submit/auto?user_id=pts&url=https://githu...

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