-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/11 11:12, Philipp Pagel wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:48:55AM +0000, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote: >> Large snip. >> >>> Absolutely vector - no jpeg, png, ... although it takes >> >> That depends on the kind of graph. I aggree that you should try >> vector at first. But when it generates very larges files (e.g. >> scatterplots with thousands of points) then you better switch to >> bitmaps like tiff or png. Jpeg can create artefacts, so is not very >> good for graphics. > > True. Sometimes one can get away with switching from a normal > scatterplot to hexbin or something like this but if that is not > anoption a high resolution tiff or png is the way out.
Well - is there a rule without an exception? Of course - you are right. Cheers, Rainer > > And of course, I agree that jpeg should never be used for graphs. > > cu > Philipp > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Tel: +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +27 - (0)8 39 47 90 42 Fax (SA): +27 - (0)8 65 16 27 82 Fax (D) : +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 Fax (FR): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEUEARECAAYFAk2S9rkACgkQoYgNqgF2egpp2ACcCrToeRM2OWPBVAs99Q/u0c/z Vl8AmKoP0l2RR+EyL+VVlYM2S+hQdhw= =hKPu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ 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.
