Re: [R] Windows Printing and Line Widths

Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:47:03 -0800 

Those printers AFAIK support postscript.

How are you printing to them on Linux? I suggest you use dev.print under Windows (it needs some setup, see ?postscript). That makes more sense than going via PDF as the support is all already in R and it is AFAIK the printer's native mode.

We've seen far too many problems with HP Windows printer drivers on 8000 and 4000 series printers.


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote:

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

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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
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