latex and memory related

[Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>]

Hi,
	I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file.

	The file looks like this:

	\documentclass{article}
	\begin{document}

	\setlength{\unitlength}{4144sp}%
	%
	\begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
	\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
	  \reset@font\fontsize{#1}{#2pt}%
	    \fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
	      \selectfont}%
	      \fi\endgroup%
	      \begin{picture}(3804,2679)(2104,-5338)
	      \thinlines
	      \special{ps: gsave 0 0 0 setrgbcolor}\put(2116,-5326){\framebox(3780,2655){}}
	      \special{ps: gsave 0 0 0 setrgbcolor}\put(3331,-4786){\framebox(1395,1620){}}
	      \end{picture}

	\end{document}

	But, the latex command used about 70MB ram when it process the file, and the dvips used just about the same ram. See below:
	3916 shao      10   0 85788  83M   580 R       0 93.3 66.7   3:13 dvips

	Is this normal?? What is the recommanded way to export the stuff from xfig to latex??

	Thanks.
Shao.

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