We are not aware of any related changes between R 1.5.1 and R 1.8.1, and no one else has reported a problem. Text strings in R graphics are plotted directly in the font specified and not as individual letters, so there is nothing you can do about letter spacing in R.
I would first cross-check that the same fonts have been used in both systems (and that includes exact sizes of fonts), then check that a metafile viewer (Windows XP comes with one, for example) shows the difference. I am afraid that most of the problems we have investigated with metafiles were traced to bugs in Word. On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Redding, Matthew wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been trying to make some adjustments to the graphics in a paper I wrote some > time ago, for which the comments have been > returned from the reviewers. > > I always use R for publication graphics...I think it does the best job available, > for the things I am interested in. > > I could not get my graphics in R 181 to look the same as the old ones (completed 8 > months ago), > the text seemed a bit squashed > together when I copied graphics as meta-files into word. > > I have found that by re-installing version 1.51, the graphics look as nice as the > previous ones, with the text nicely spaced. > > Is there a "par" parameters that will adjust the letter spacing, so I can use > version 181 for this type of job? > > Thanks, > > Matt R. Redding > Senior Environmental Scientist, Intensive livestock and sheep > Agency for Food and Fibre Sciences > Department of Primary Industries > > Telephone 07 4688 1372 Fax 07 4688 1192 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/ilsu/ Call Centre 13 25 23 > > ********************************DISCLAIMER******************...{{dropped}} > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
