jiho
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:18:04 -0700
On 2007-September-28 , at 15:18 , Paul Smith wrote: > On 9/28/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I know how to export graphics as pdf files and then how to include >>> them in LaTeX documents. However, I do not know how to do in >>> order to >>> have the text of the graphics written with the font selected for the >>> LaTeX document. Is that possible? >> >> Well, it depends on what that font is. But if it is TeX font, >> see the section called 'TeX fonts' in ?postscript and the detailed >> description in the article in R-news 6/2 by Paul Murrell and myself. >> >> If it is an Adobe Type1 font such as Times New Roman, just specify an >> appropriate family in the pdf() call. >> >> Dietrich Trenkler wrote: >> >>> maybe you will find the psfrag package useful. >> >> I doubt it will be even usable with PDF (there are pdfrack and >> Xfigfrag, >> though), and with postscript it is at best a kludge as R does its own >> micro-positioning of text based on the font metrics. > > Thanks to both. PSTricks > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSTricks > > draws figures that, when inserted in a LaTeX document, their font > matches the one selected for the LaTeX document. If I may, I would > like to submit to your consideration the suggestion of implementing > the exportation of R graphics to PSTricks.
If you don't mind an extra step between R and LaTeX, you could use
Inkscape to modify your graphics:
http://www.inkscape.org/
It is a (very nice!) vector graphics editor which:
- works with SVGs (as produced with the RSvgDevice package)
- imports PDFs (really well in the latest development version)
- is available for free, on most platforms
and
- exports PDFs that nicely integrate in LaTeX documents
- exports PSTricks graphics
Then two roads are opened for you:
1- either get a TTF version of the LaTeX fonts (there are packages
for this on all linux distros I know, for use with Lyx and you can
probably find them on the web otherwise) and change all the fonts to
those once your document is in Inkscape (select all > text and font >
select the font)
2- or open the document with inkscape and export it to pstricks
I personally use Inkscape on all my R graphics because I find it
easier and quicker to get decent graphics and R and refine their look
in Inkscape than to get them perfect in R in one shot ( though with
ggplot2 things are improving on R's side).
Cheers,
JiHO
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http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
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