Hi all, I develop and print from both Windows and Linux, and am seeing some printing inconsistencies first described about a year and a half ago by Andy Liaw (see below). Specifically, the line widths on my windows plots are about 5 times smaller than that on Linux, and my windows printouts do not match what my screen looks like. However, if I print to a pdf file first, then I can get accurate Windows reproduction of my screen. I was thinking of writing a windows.print() wrapper that creates a temporary pdf file and then prints that. However, I wanted to see if a better solution now exists to get identical printouts on both Linux and Windows (since Andy's original post), or any comments on what printers this does or does not affect.
Thanks, Robert HP Laserjet 8150DN HP Color Laserjet 4600DN HP Laserjet 4050TN platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 0.1 year 2004 month 11 day 15 language R --------------------------------- From: Prof Brian Ripley Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 23:59:29 EDT What printer driver are you using? I've just tried this and it works exactly as one would expect on my HP 970CXi, as well as cut-and-paste into other applications. It also worked printing to Acrobat Distiller (although all the lines were thinner there than on-screen and on the 970CXi, the ratio was still 1:5). We've been here before, and had to abandon some optimizations because of a bug in interpreting Windows metafiles in Word. On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: > Andy, > I've experienced the same thing. What's interesting is that printing > a plot (CTRL-P) with lwd = 25 makes lines on the hardcopy look like lwd > = 5. I'm using R1.7.1 on Win2000Pro. > > Regards, > Sundar > > Liaw, Andy wrote: > > Dear R-help, > > > > Has anyone notice the problem that, on Windows (NT and XP), when printing a > > graph using the "File -> Print..." menu in the graphics window to print the > > graph, that line width seemed to be ignored in the printed output? For > > example, if I make a plot with plot(1:10, type="l", lwd=5), it looks right > > on screen, but when printed out using the menu, it looks like the plot was > > made with lwd=1. I've had this problem for quite a while (at least since > > 1.3.x) and still present in 1.7.1. Has anyone else seen this, or just me? > > > > Best, > > Andy > > > > Andy Liaw, PhD > > Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300 > > Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065 > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 732-594-0820 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, cont... {{dropped}} > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ <http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 Robert McGehee Geode Capital Management, LLC 53 State Street, 5th Floor | Boston, MA | 02109 Tel: 617/392-8396 Fax:617/476-6389 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, and any attachments hereto, are intended for us...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html