title: Optimize the SVG output from Gnuplot
body: <p>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? </p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>I also tried <a href="http://www.codedread.com/scour/" rel="nofollow">Scour</a> and re-printing the SVG without any success.</p>