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Exporting 3D plots, with low size

Posted 9 years ago

I have plotted few 3D graphs using the command "ListPlot3D" (Say Graph1)

And then I am Expoting them using command : Export["G1.eps", Graph1]

This exports the 3D graph "Graph1" to file "G1.eps"

Now The problem arises is that, the size of exported file "G1.eps" is very high. Near about 10 MB.

I need this file to have size, as small as possible.

Please see into it. Kindly suggest the solution. Thanks in advance.

POSTED BY: abhishek sharma
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Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: Alexey Popkov

okie... thanks

POSTED BY: abhishek sharma

EPS is a notoriously large format, and there's no point using it for this because ListPlot3Ds can't be exported as vector graphics anyways. Try a raster format like Export["G1.png", Graph1] or Export["G1.jpg", Graph1].

POSTED BY: Jesse Friedman
Posted 9 years ago

EPS is a notoriously large format, and there's no point using it for this because ListPlot3Ds can't be exported as vector graphics anyways.

Actually this is not true: for example, evaluating the following in version 10.2 produces a EPS file of size 66 Kb without any raster:

pl = ListPlot3D[{{1, 1, 1, 1}, {1, 2, 1, 2}, {1, 1, 3, 1}, {1, 2, 1, 4}}, Mesh -> All];
Export["pl.eps", pl]

I do not think 66 Kb EPS can be considered as a large file, especially If we take into consideration that Mathematica's EPS Export does not apply any compression which EPS format supports. As a comparison Exporting into PNG with good (but not excellent) resolution 300 dpi produces a file of size 136 Kb:

Export["pl.png", pl, ImageResolution -> 300]

In version 10 we face the fact that vector Exporting of 3D plots into PDF is disabled by default and even explicit setting of option AllowRasterization -> False does not work. I hope that it is a bug which will be fixed.

POSTED BY: Alexey Popkov
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