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Re: PS files - too big...

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From: Kim Nguyen
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 03:22
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In article <1683E730A.GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com> GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> 
>In article <1992Aug7.164700.15016@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
>sticklen@cps.msu.edu writes:
> 
>> [...]                     The problem I have is that when I create the PS file
>>via the print dialog, that I produce a HEMONGOUS file. The document I was
>>working with was a PowerPoint doc with two relatively simple slides - and the
>>PS file produced was 800k.
> 
>There's a CDEV called Trimmer, available the usual places as:
> 
>                               CP/PS-TRIMMER-101.HQX
> 
>which pretty well tames those ravenous Postscript files.

I once tried Trimmer on text or non-text file by choosing (in control panel)
only one typeface like Helvatica or Monaco. The file is still big. A text file
50 K becomes 300 K or even greater than that. A non-text file 150 K becomes 700
K. I often create diagrams with more than 200 K or even 1.2 M and would like to
use new HP LaserJet(only for pc-man), but ps file is too big to put on floppy.I
really give up and go back to old LaserWriter.

Can any friends out there have a magic solution to make the ps file shorter?

Khanh Kim, Nguyen
The beginner of using F command in rn
knguyen@emr.ca
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