High quality figures in my latex document is making the pdf document very slow and laggy











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I am in the process of writing a manuscript and I have decided to use overleaf to make that document. I used inkscape to make my figures and every image in my figure is a vector graphic. The problem is, my figures are very large (~25 mb) and I have four of those. I made the image dimensions smaller which made my figure size ~ 10 mb. That is still too large since when I embed that in my manuscript, my manuscript ends up being very laggy as I navigate through it. If I compress the pdf image, my image becomes distorted. If I save the figures as .png, they are still very large.



My question is, how do I embed high resolution images with lower size in my manuscript. I have been stuck on this problem for a while and I am not sure how to tackle it. Surely there must be some way to save a low size high quality image. I appreciate all your help.



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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Latex is not able to adjust the resolution of your images. You need to do this using an external program. Alternatively, if you want to keep the resolution for the final version then you can use usepackage[draft]{graphicx} to suppress images will you are working on the document.
    – Andrew
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  • avoid compressing pdf (it will work with correct settings but it is fraught with problems getting .pdf used universally) stick with reducing copies of the .png's. With inkscape you can specify the size and resolution of the file. By default many applications use 72 or 96 dpi but for reasonable color output 150dpi is enough and 300 dpi the preferred max unless your going to enlarge output (I would test both) be aware if include reduces the size then you need to calculate final dpi so if at 1:1 you want 300dpi quality but its included at half size then you only need 150 dpi for the same result
    – KJO
    1 hour ago












  • As .png each image file should never be more than ### kb certainly over 1mb is rare
    – KJO
    1 hour ago










  • I would create low-res versions of the images and include those during the early stages of production using a swtich/flag. Then use the larger, higher-quality images for final production.
    – Werner
    7 mins ago















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I am in the process of writing a manuscript and I have decided to use overleaf to make that document. I used inkscape to make my figures and every image in my figure is a vector graphic. The problem is, my figures are very large (~25 mb) and I have four of those. I made the image dimensions smaller which made my figure size ~ 10 mb. That is still too large since when I embed that in my manuscript, my manuscript ends up being very laggy as I navigate through it. If I compress the pdf image, my image becomes distorted. If I save the figures as .png, they are still very large.



My question is, how do I embed high resolution images with lower size in my manuscript. I have been stuck on this problem for a while and I am not sure how to tackle it. Surely there must be some way to save a low size high quality image. I appreciate all your help.



Thanks.






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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Latex is not able to adjust the resolution of your images. You need to do this using an external program. Alternatively, if you want to keep the resolution for the final version then you can use usepackage[draft]{graphicx} to suppress images will you are working on the document.
    – Andrew
    1 hour ago










  • avoid compressing pdf (it will work with correct settings but it is fraught with problems getting .pdf used universally) stick with reducing copies of the .png's. With inkscape you can specify the size and resolution of the file. By default many applications use 72 or 96 dpi but for reasonable color output 150dpi is enough and 300 dpi the preferred max unless your going to enlarge output (I would test both) be aware if include reduces the size then you need to calculate final dpi so if at 1:1 you want 300dpi quality but its included at half size then you only need 150 dpi for the same result
    – KJO
    1 hour ago












  • As .png each image file should never be more than ### kb certainly over 1mb is rare
    – KJO
    1 hour ago










  • I would create low-res versions of the images and include those during the early stages of production using a swtich/flag. Then use the larger, higher-quality images for final production.
    – Werner
    7 mins ago













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I am in the process of writing a manuscript and I have decided to use overleaf to make that document. I used inkscape to make my figures and every image in my figure is a vector graphic. The problem is, my figures are very large (~25 mb) and I have four of those. I made the image dimensions smaller which made my figure size ~ 10 mb. That is still too large since when I embed that in my manuscript, my manuscript ends up being very laggy as I navigate through it. If I compress the pdf image, my image becomes distorted. If I save the figures as .png, they are still very large.



My question is, how do I embed high resolution images with lower size in my manuscript. I have been stuck on this problem for a while and I am not sure how to tackle it. Surely there must be some way to save a low size high quality image. I appreciate all your help.



Thanks.






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I am in the process of writing a manuscript and I have decided to use overleaf to make that document. I used inkscape to make my figures and every image in my figure is a vector graphic. The problem is, my figures are very large (~25 mb) and I have four of those. I made the image dimensions smaller which made my figure size ~ 10 mb. That is still too large since when I embed that in my manuscript, my manuscript ends up being very laggy as I navigate through it. If I compress the pdf image, my image becomes distorted. If I save the figures as .png, they are still very large.



My question is, how do I embed high resolution images with lower size in my manuscript. I have been stuck on this problem for a while and I am not sure how to tackle it. Surely there must be some way to save a low size high quality image. I appreciate all your help.



Thanks.






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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Latex is not able to adjust the resolution of your images. You need to do this using an external program. Alternatively, if you want to keep the resolution for the final version then you can use usepackage[draft]{graphicx} to suppress images will you are working on the document.
    – Andrew
    1 hour ago










  • avoid compressing pdf (it will work with correct settings but it is fraught with problems getting .pdf used universally) stick with reducing copies of the .png's. With inkscape you can specify the size and resolution of the file. By default many applications use 72 or 96 dpi but for reasonable color output 150dpi is enough and 300 dpi the preferred max unless your going to enlarge output (I would test both) be aware if include reduces the size then you need to calculate final dpi so if at 1:1 you want 300dpi quality but its included at half size then you only need 150 dpi for the same result
    – KJO
    1 hour ago












  • As .png each image file should never be more than ### kb certainly over 1mb is rare
    – KJO
    1 hour ago










  • I would create low-res versions of the images and include those during the early stages of production using a swtich/flag. Then use the larger, higher-quality images for final production.
    – Werner
    7 mins ago


















  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Latex is not able to adjust the resolution of your images. You need to do this using an external program. Alternatively, if you want to keep the resolution for the final version then you can use usepackage[draft]{graphicx} to suppress images will you are working on the document.
    – Andrew
    1 hour ago










  • avoid compressing pdf (it will work with correct settings but it is fraught with problems getting .pdf used universally) stick with reducing copies of the .png's. With inkscape you can specify the size and resolution of the file. By default many applications use 72 or 96 dpi but for reasonable color output 150dpi is enough and 300 dpi the preferred max unless your going to enlarge output (I would test both) be aware if include reduces the size then you need to calculate final dpi so if at 1:1 you want 300dpi quality but its included at half size then you only need 150 dpi for the same result
    – KJO
    1 hour ago












  • As .png each image file should never be more than ### kb certainly over 1mb is rare
    – KJO
    1 hour ago










  • I would create low-res versions of the images and include those during the early stages of production using a swtich/flag. Then use the larger, higher-quality images for final production.
    – Werner
    7 mins ago
















Welcome to TeX.SX! Latex is not able to adjust the resolution of your images. You need to do this using an external program. Alternatively, if you want to keep the resolution for the final version then you can use usepackage[draft]{graphicx} to suppress images will you are working on the document.
– Andrew
1 hour ago




Welcome to TeX.SX! Latex is not able to adjust the resolution of your images. You need to do this using an external program. Alternatively, if you want to keep the resolution for the final version then you can use usepackage[draft]{graphicx} to suppress images will you are working on the document.
– Andrew
1 hour ago












avoid compressing pdf (it will work with correct settings but it is fraught with problems getting .pdf used universally) stick with reducing copies of the .png's. With inkscape you can specify the size and resolution of the file. By default many applications use 72 or 96 dpi but for reasonable color output 150dpi is enough and 300 dpi the preferred max unless your going to enlarge output (I would test both) be aware if include reduces the size then you need to calculate final dpi so if at 1:1 you want 300dpi quality but its included at half size then you only need 150 dpi for the same result
– KJO
1 hour ago






avoid compressing pdf (it will work with correct settings but it is fraught with problems getting .pdf used universally) stick with reducing copies of the .png's. With inkscape you can specify the size and resolution of the file. By default many applications use 72 or 96 dpi but for reasonable color output 150dpi is enough and 300 dpi the preferred max unless your going to enlarge output (I would test both) be aware if include reduces the size then you need to calculate final dpi so if at 1:1 you want 300dpi quality but its included at half size then you only need 150 dpi for the same result
– KJO
1 hour ago














As .png each image file should never be more than ### kb certainly over 1mb is rare
– KJO
1 hour ago




As .png each image file should never be more than ### kb certainly over 1mb is rare
– KJO
1 hour ago












I would create low-res versions of the images and include those during the early stages of production using a swtich/flag. Then use the larger, higher-quality images for final production.
– Werner
7 mins ago




I would create low-res versions of the images and include those during the early stages of production using a swtich/flag. Then use the larger, higher-quality images for final production.
– Werner
7 mins ago















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