: Rasterization in Illustrator is too slow? I'm trying to rasterize a large 1000x1000 heatmap output from R (but not the axis-labels and title). Selecting the heatmap and clicking the rasterize

@Harper654

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I'm trying to rasterize a large 1000x1000 heatmap output from R (but not the axis-labels and title).

Selecting the heatmap and clicking the rasterize function, the process essentially never completes. However, I can export the entire PDF as a high quality PNG, copy the heatmap in MS Paint and the paste it back into Illustrator.

I don't understand why rasterization is so slow, when exporting the entire PDF as a PNG is so much faster. Surely there must be a better solution than copy-pasting from MS Paint?

Example plot in R:

pdf("myplot.pdf");
image(matrix(runif(1000*1000),nrow=1000));
dev.off()

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