[metapost] problems with memory in metapost

[Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan]

Ok I'll sent you an email to how get the files.

Thanks

Best Regards,
yogeshwarsing

On 5/8/2010 10:20 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 8 May 2010 Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan wrote:
>
>   >  Thanks. But how to write such a "script". In what language?
>
> I usually use Perl for things like this but any scripting language
> supporting regular expressions is fine.
>
>   >  can this be done on the command line in Win XP?
>
> Not directly.  Windows doesn't provide such tools.  But even on Unix I
> prefer a programming language like Perl.
>
> If you are not familiar with scripting languages and regular
> expressions, please put the file on a web server where I can download
> it or, if impossible, send it to me by mail.  But please note that
> web.de rejects mails bigger than 5MB.
>
> Regards,
>    Reinhard
>
>   >  Thanks
>   >
>   >  On 5/8/2010 2:32 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>   >  >  On 8 May 2010 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>   >  >
>   >  >    >   It looks you (or gnuplot) are creating small rectangles instead
>   >  >    >   of simple dots, and that means that every data point expands into
>   >  >    >   quite a bit of postscript code:
>   >  >    >
>   >  >    >      newpath 414.37424 124.80127 moveto
>   >  >    >      416.37424 122.80127 lineto
>   >  >    >      418.37424 124.80127 lineto
>   >  >    >      416.37424 126.80127 lineto
>   >  >    >      closepath stroke
>   >  >
>   >  >  If all these rectangles have the same shape and size, one could
>   >  >  post-process the file and define a procedure:
>   >  >
>   >  >  /R { newpath moveto
>   >  >        2 -2 rlineto 2 2 rlineto -2 2 rlineto closepath stroke
>   >  >  } def
>   >  >
>   >  >  Then the code-snippet above can be replaced by:
>   >  >
>   >  >      414.37424 124.80127 R
>   >  >
>   >  >  This is actually equivalent to
>   >  >
>   >  >      newpath 414.37424 124.80127 moveto
>   >  >      2 -2 rlineto
>   >  >      2  2 rlineto
>   >  >      -2 2 rlineto
>   >  >      closepath stroke
>   >  >
>   >  >  Note the use of relative coordinates and rlineto.
>   >  >
>   >  >  This should save a lot of space but requires some post-processing.
>   >  >
>   >  >  Regards,
>   >  >     Reinhard
>   >  >
>   >
>   >