Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-16 Thread Mark Difford
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

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-16 Thread Mark Difford
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,

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-16 Thread Gabor Csardi
Hmmm, I did not follow this thread closely, sorry for that, just want to share my 2c. If it is about quality, then I create EPS files and use the psfrag latex package to replace the PS fonts with TeX's fonts. This has the following advantages: 1) The figures have the same font as the text

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-16 Thread Gabor Csardi
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:48:28AM -0500, Gabor Csardi wrote: [...] I have a little script that automates this for .fig files (this is based on figtex, another script that I found somewhere online and can't find it any more) [...] Ok, it is called figfrag, and it is on CTAN. [...] --

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-16 Thread willemf
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

[R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-15 Thread willemf
I am attempting to get publication quality graphs using R on Ubuntu. I encounter lots of problems in using cex to control font size: for instance cex=1.5 results in very blocky characters. I then tried to use res=1200 while creating a PNG file, hoping that this would solve the problem, but it did

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Horner
willemf wrote on 07/15/2008 08:42 AM: I am attempting to get publication quality graphs using R on Ubuntu. I encounter lots of problems in using cex to control font size: for instance cex=1.5 results in very blocky characters. I then tried to use res=1200 while creating a PNG file, hoping that

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-15 Thread Mark Difford
Hi wf I just cannot believe that R does not have a good command of this. Curious. I find R's graphical output matchless. Almost without exception I use postscript and find the controls available under base graphics (?par) or lattice adequate (to understate). Very occassionally I fiddle with

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-15 Thread willemf
Thank you Jeff, I will follow up on this. I just cannot believe that R does not have a good command of this. The obvious route is Postscript ourput, since it is not raster-based and one can incorporate EPS files into OpenOffice documents. However, when printing to a Postscript device, there is no

Re: [R] Font quality in base graphics

2008-07-15 Thread Mike Prager
willemf wrote on 07/15/2008 08:42 AM: I am attempting to get publication quality graphs using R on Ubuntu. I encounter lots of problems in using cex to control font size: for instance cex=1.5 results in very blocky characters. I then tried to use res=1200 while creating a PNG file, hoping that