Hi willemf, And perhaps I should have added (in case you are moving across systems) that you should take a look at
?embedFonts http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf Ghostscript should be installed on your box, so there shouldn't be a problem. Without additional information, it's not possible to help further. Of course, you could send me the data and a script showing how you want it plotted, and I would send you a PDF in return, showing you what R can do ;). HTH, Mark. Mark Difford wrote: > > 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-tp18465608p18483965.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.
