Hi, I don't know if I am the first one to report the problem: in 2.8.0 dev2bitmap gained aa support, but "extra" is null if neither taa nor naa is specified.
> dev2bitmap("plot.pdf",type="pdfwrite") Error in paste(shQuote(gsexe), " -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q -sDEVICE=", type, : object "extra" not found > dev2bitmap("plot.pdf",type="pdfwrite",taa=4) > I guess a useful default for extra is missing: if (!is.na(taa)) extra <- paste(" -dTextAlphaBits=", taa, sep = "") if (!is.na(gaa)) extra <- paste(extra, " -dGraphicsAlphaBits=", gaa, sep = "") cmd <- paste(shQuote(gsexe), " -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q -sDEVICE=", type, " -r", res, "-dAutoRotatePages=/None", " -g", ceiling(res * width), "x", ceiling(res * height), extra, " -sOutputFile=", shQuote(file), " ", tmp, sep = "") best wishes, ido > R.Version() $platform [1] "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu" $arch [1] "x86_64" $os [1] "linux-gnu" $system [1] "x86_64, linux-gnu" $status [1] "" $major [1] "2" $minor [1] "8.0" $year [1] "2008" $month [1] "10" $day [1] "20" $`svn rev` [1] "46754" $language [1] "R" $version.string [1] "R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)" ______________________________________________ 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.