On Sep 7, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > My guess is quartz() and that this is nothing to do with R but with > copying in Mac OS X from a quartz() window.
Saving to a file from the quartz window also produces a PDF that is viewable but not printable by Preview, and Acrobat too. I suppose it could be the printer driver, though that means that R is guilty of putting out some pretty exotic Postscript. I'm hoping someone else sees this or doesn't so I can pin it down. Paul >> par(mfrow=c(2,2)) >> y<-1:20 >> plot(y, pch="+") >> plot(y, pch="+") >> plot(y, pch="+") >> plot(y, pch="+") >> >> produces a pdf that is viewable in Preview (copied from the >> clipboard) but fails to print. >> >> pch default or ="." or =3 prints. >> >> Unfortunately pch=3 doesn't fix the mfrow=c(5,6) graph that I'm >> actually trying to print, >> so the bug lies somewhere deeper. > > Why not use pdf()? That works for me (but then I don't have your > printer drivers). > >> OS X 10.4.11 >> R 2.9.2 GUI 1.29 Tiger build 32-bit (5464) >> Laserjet 5MP >> >> Paul McGuire > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
