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I’ve been trying to plot a dataset containing about 500,000 values using gnuplot. Although the plotting went well, the SVG file it produced was too large (about 25 MB) and takes ages to render. Is there some way I can improve the file size?
I have vague understanding of the SVG file format and I realize that this is because SVG is a vector format and thus have to store 500,000 points individually.
I also tried Scour and re-printing the SVG without any success.
The time it takes to render you SVG file is proportional to the amount of information in it. Thus, the only way to speed up rendering is to reduce the amount of data
I think it is a little tedious to fiddle with an already generated SVG file. I would suggest to reduce the amount of data for gnuplot to plot.
Maybe every or some other reduction of data can help like splitting the data into multiple plots…