Am Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:18:38 +0000 schrieb "Sorkin, John" <[email protected]>:
> I am running R in RStudio. I am creating a graph, which I see in the > plot window, and I use ggsave() to save a copy of the graph in a > file. > > When I use look at the graph is RStudio's Plots window, the graph > looks fine. When I click on the Plot window's export button, copy the > plot to the clipboard and paste the graph into MS word, the graph > looks fine. Please see first figure on attached MS word document. > > When I copy and paste the .tiff file saved by ggsave, the graph looks > bad. Second figure on the attached MS word document. I think the > graphs is being exported improperly by ggsave. I would appreciate any > suggestions for improving the quality of the graph produced by > ggsave. I have found it to be better to use a device directly with ggsave (e.g, device=svg). When saving to svg with device=NULL (the default) and filename="plot.svg" the result is poor as letter spacing is often incorrect because the fontpaths will not be saved. With device=svg it looks perfect. So something similar may happen with tiff (although of course that is not a vector format). Since you embedded the figure in Word why not use svg anyway? It finally is a supported format (it hasn't always been). I hope that some day also pdf will be supported by Word. (No, what I actually hope is that soon I won't have to use Word anymore. 😁) ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
