Hi willemf, Glad to hear that it helped. Years ago (late-90s) I Linuxed, but have since been forced into the Windows environment (where, however, I have the great pleasure of being able to use MiKTeX and LyX, i.e. TeX/LaTeX). I therefore can't help you further, except to say that I have never had a problem controlling font sizes &c to my admittedly very demanding --- some people say excessively demanding --- standards (and that's on Windows!). And I have never had a problem with labels &c not being where they should be, or of the size I want them to be, when I have built the graphic from "scratch." And only very rarely have I encountered such problems when using canned graph types.
In brief, what I am saying is that the problem almost certainly lies with the way fonts &c are set up on your Linux box. Were this not the case, then I can assure you that there would have many and varied sharply worded statements on this list relating to the poor quality of R's graphs. And there would have been just as many pointed, well-written rebukes, pointing that .... Yet there aren't. If you search the archives you will find that a good many users migrated to R from other systems because of R's excellent graphical subsystems. Look at the graphics in any of the many books now published on using R, or that use R to elucidate problems.... Set your mind at rest: look at your system setup, and the tools outside R that you are using. Hope it all works out. OpenOffice is now a very good suite of programs, but if you want true quality of output then you really should be TeXing. Check it out. Bye, Mark. willemf wrote: > > Mark, your suggestion results in about 75% control over the plot. This is > the best that I have managed to get it at, so thank you very much. In > Linux you create a X11() device for screen output. Specifying identical > device characteristics results in a fair degree of similarity between > screen version and EPS version. However in this case, for instance, some > labels along the X axis are omitted in the screen version and > (thankfullly!) included in the Postscript version. Also, the relative > sizes of caption font size and label font size are not identical in the > two versions. I have learnt a few things in this exercise, so thanks you > very much for the advice. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Font-quality-in-base-graphics-tp18465608p18483719.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.
