On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Gustaf Rydevik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently preparing some figures that will be submitted to PloS One. > In their guidelines they state that they will only accept figures in > tiff or eps format, with the warning that eps figures will be > converted to tiff format ( see > http://www.plosone.org/static/figureGuidelines.action ). > > Because of this conversion, I figured I'd generate tiff-format figures > from the beginning. > However, a number of issues cropped up: > 1) using > > library(Cairo) > CairoTIFF("test.tif") > > I get " Sorry, this Cairo was compiled without tiff support.". I tried > finding out how to recompile Cairo, but got lost in a lot of confusing > talk about GTK+, downloaded dll files that I didn't know how to use > etc. > > so I turned to plain tiff(), and > > 2) R started crashing on me.The following code > > tiff("test.tif") > plot(rnorm(100)) > dev.off() > > ,crashes R (i.e "R GUI has encountered a problem and needs to > close...") every third time or so. > When it does work, the resulting output is not too pretty. > > So I turned to using postscript files. However, Plos One requires that > fonts be embedded into the figure. > embedFonts() works for this, but the result is that text becomes > low-res bitmaps, and I don't know how to solve this. > > So basically my question is: How should I go about generating graphics > that will look as nice as possible given the above constraints? > > Many thanks in advance, > > Gustaf > > Oh, and before anyone bites my head of, I forgot the following:
> sessionInfo() R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] RWinEdt_1.8-0 Cairo_1.4-2 > , and I'm using windows XP professional again, many thanks in advance /Gustaf -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel: +46(0)703 051 451 address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE skype:gustaf_rydevik ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.