The fewer # of points, the better. But I look at it from my computer's ability to fluidly work with the file as well as the printer's point of view...not the document MB size.

Best!
Dave


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On Jan 24, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Clara Richardson wrote:

Hi all-

I just took delivery of a lovely commercial layered Illustrator map. It is well organized and easy to work with. But it leads me to one question--

Is it cheaper in any RAM sense to have 50 trillion corner points instead of a few nice smooth curved ones? I always make my own curves with as few anchor points as possible...

thanks,
-Clara


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Scientific Illustrator
Department of Zoology
The Field Museum
Chicago, IL  60605

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