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LCarvalho
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I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

 ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[\[Theta]]Cos[θ], r Sin[\[Theta]]Sin[θ], r^2}, {r, 0, 1}, {\[Theta]θ, 0, 2 \[Pi]π}]

surface

then context-click on the graphics and select Save Graphic As ..., and save it as PDF.

The resulting PDF is 5MB large! When I include it in my LaTeX file it takes a long time to compile and to render in a PDF viewer.

I know that I can save it in another format such as PNG to get the file size down (in this case all the way to 33KB). But I'd prefer a vector format because my final product will be PDF. Are there some options to the Export[] command which might reduce the number of colors and make the exported file smaller?

I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

 ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[\[Theta]], r Sin[\[Theta]], r^2}, {r, 0, 1}, {\[Theta], 0, 2 \[Pi]}]

surface

then context-click on the graphics and select Save Graphic As ..., and save it as PDF.

The resulting PDF is 5MB large! When I include it in my LaTeX file it takes a long time to compile and to render in a PDF viewer.

I know that I can save it in another format such as PNG to get the file size down (in this case all the way to 33KB). But I'd prefer a vector format because my final product will be PDF. Are there some options to the Export[] command which might reduce the number of colors and make the exported file smaller?

I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

 ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[θ], r Sin[θ], r^2}, {r, 0, 1}, {θ, 0, 2 π}]

surface

then context-click on the graphics and select Save Graphic As ..., and save it as PDF.

The resulting PDF is 5MB large! When I include it in my LaTeX file it takes a long time to compile and to render in a PDF viewer.

I know that I can save it in another format such as PNG to get the file size down (in this case all the way to 33KB). But I'd prefer a vector format because my final product will be PDF. Are there some options to the Export[] command which might reduce the number of colors and make the exported file smaller?

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Matthew Leingang
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Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file

I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with

 ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[\[Theta]], r Sin[\[Theta]], r^2}, {r, 0, 1}, {\[Theta], 0, 2 \[Pi]}]

surface

then context-click on the graphics and select Save Graphic As ..., and save it as PDF.

The resulting PDF is 5MB large! When I include it in my LaTeX file it takes a long time to compile and to render in a PDF viewer.

I know that I can save it in another format such as PNG to get the file size down (in this case all the way to 33KB). But I'd prefer a vector format because my final product will be PDF. Are there some options to the Export[] command which might reduce the number of colors and make the exported file smaller?