Hello, I have a perl script which reads in a file and then loops over each line and makes a plot with pgplot. I have this odd effect where the plot files gradually get bigger although they all appear similar. The output postscripts increase from ~25K by on average 0.5K. As I repeat this 1,000s of times the postscript files get very large. I must not be resetting some parameter each time. The relevant parts of the code after readingh the input catalogue are" 
$dev="/cps";
for($i=1;$i<=$end;$i++) {
  pgbegin(0,$dev,1,1);
  pgenv($ra[$i]-0.05,$ra[$i]+0.05,$dec[$i]-0.05,$dec[$i]+0.05,1,0);
  pglabel('RA (J2000)','dec. (J2000)',$name[$i]);
  [plot stuff]
  pgend;
  system "mv pgplot.ps $name[$i]_dist.ps"

}

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thanks!

In reply to iterative use of pgplot producing large files by nseymour

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