Hi wf >> I just cannot believe that R does not have a good command of this.
Curious. I find R's graphical output matchless. Almost without exception I use postscript and find the controls available under base graphics (?par) or "lattice" adequate (to understate). Very occassionally I fiddle with the postscript pointsize setting, but not often. If you are struggling to get relative sizes as you want them then plot to a window (device) of the same size as the "on-paper" graphic you want. Under Windows, for example, open a windows device with: windows(width = 6.5, height = 6.5 * .75, pointsize = 12) Then plot to it to check the scaling. If fine, then do: postscript(paper="special", width=6.5, height=6.5*.75, pointsize=12, onefile=F, horizontal=F) Then plot, and dev.off(). ??? HTH, Mark. willemf wrote: > > Thank you Jeff, I will follow up on this. I just cannot believe that R > does not have a good command of this. The obvious route is Postscript > ourput, since it is not raster-based and one can incorporate EPS files > into OpenOffice documents. However, when printing to a Postscript device, > there is no control over the size of the text with respect to the graphics > (at least I have not managed to obtain that level of control, even when > restricting graphic size by specifying fin = c(3,3). The fundamental > challenge for R is to generate identical copies of > onscreen/pdf/PNG/postscript output. As far as I deduce this is not > possible at present. Thanks for your comments. Regards, wf > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Font-quality-in-base-graphics-tp18465608p18473692.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
