Dear Joe,
thank you for your answer! Actually, I used to make large size pdfs with a
tiny font size in these cases. It is then even possible to print this
single-page-pdf on multiple pages in Acrobat Reader. The problem was that
my current tree is really huge - with about 23000 tips. This took me to the
limits of this approach, since pdf size is limited to 200 inch by Adobe and
there also seems to be a lower limit for font size in pdfs (at least during
export form R?).
I didn't knew that Drawtree is able to split the tree over multiple pages.
I guess this is an option in the command line version? I will check that
out. In the mean time I found a way to do the job in R (see my post before)
that seems to produce reasonable results.
Thank you very much again for your efforts!
Regards,
Jonas
--
Jonas Eberle
PhD student
2015-03-05 12:41 GMT+01:00 Joe Felsenstein <j...@gs.washington.edu>:
>
> Jonas Eberle wrote:
>
>
>> thanks a lot! I didn't knew splitplotTree yet. Great function! However, my
>> tree has several thousands of tips (yes, it's a bit crazy but
>> unfortunately
>> necessary...) and I guess it's only possible to split it on two pages with
>> splitplotTree. Or am I missing something?
>>
>
> It's not in R (unless available through Liam Revell's "phytools" package),
> but in PHYLIP the tree-drawing programs Drawgram and Drawtree have the
> capability of splitting a plot into a rectangular array of plots, and
> putting these out onto separate files (not PDFs, but Postscript is
> possible).
>
> This was intended to help people make large posters using printers that
> can only do a single page.
>
> However ...
>
> I do not see why this is necessary. Most tree-drawing programs should be
> able to write a file that has the large tree plotted on it. If you don't
> want to print the resulting tree on paper, it would then be possible to
> view the tree in an application such as Adobe Acrobat Reader and zoom in on
> it and see the tiny branches and their labels. Making multiple plots for
> one tree would probably confuse the matter.
>
> Or is there something I am missing here?
>
> J.F.
> ----
> Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu
> Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology,
> University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA
>
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