Re: [R] Crop white border for PDF output
Claus Atzenbeck writes: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Marc Schwartz wrote: The disadvantage with pdfcrop is that it takes an additional step: First, I have to produce the diagrams, then, I have to call pdfcrop on them to crop the white space. pdfcrop does a perfect job here: It crops the complete white space around a diagram automatically without having me to name some concrete numbers. It would be very nice if R would have an option that would allow to do me to do this for graphics that will be included in documents later. Does pdfcrop take input from stdin? I normally have a similar problem when making postscript files. Rather than worry about the excess size of the border, I do the following: postscript(file=|psfbb w81s1_m623.ps, width=7, height=4, onefile=FALSE, horiz=F) plot ... dev.off() Where my script, psfbb, crops to a tight bounding box. Maybe you could try pdf(file='|pdfcrop yourfile.pdf') ... dev.off() My script, psfbb, is available from: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/postscript/psfbb Stephen __ 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
Re: [R] Crop white border for PDF output
Dear Claus, I had not exactly the same pb, but close enough to propose you to take a look at the options fin and fig in the par() function. Hope this helps. Florence. On 11/19/05, Claus Atzenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I produce a series of diagrams with R in order to include them in my documents (LaTeX). However, there is a white border around the diagrams. For some that do not have anything written at the very bottom, the white border is relatively large. The rather big space between figure and caption at the final document looks not nice. It would be best not to have any white border. I played with oma=c(0,0,0,0) and mar=c(0,0,0,0) for single and multiple figure environments, however, without success. Is there an easy way to get rid of the white border for PDF outputs? Thanks for your input. Claus __ 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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ 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
Re: [R] Crop white border for PDF output
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Florence Combes wrote: I had not exactly the same pb, but close enough to propose you to take a look at the options fin and fig in the par() function. Thanks for your answer. In the meanwhile I also found another solution. I produce diagrams as usual and use pdfcrop to crop them afterwards. It takes two steps, but that's also OK. Claus __ 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
Re: [R] Crop white border for PDF output
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 10:48 +0100, Claus Atzenbeck wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Florence Combes wrote: I had not exactly the same pb, but close enough to propose you to take a look at the options fin and fig in the par() function. Thanks for your answer. In the meanwhile I also found another solution. I produce diagrams as usual and use pdfcrop to crop them afterwards. It takes two steps, but that's also OK. Claus Without your code, it is hard to know exactly what you need to resolve the problem or why your manipulation of the margins did not work as you want, but I am guessing that the following might be helpful. Here is a default PDF plot: pdf(PDF1.pdf, height = 4, width = 4) barplot(1:5) dev.off() Here is the same plot, but with the margins reduced: pdf(PDF2.pdf, height = 4, width = 4) par(mar = c(1, 3, 1, 1)) barplot(1:5) dev.off() Here is a default 2 x 2 plot: pdf(PDF3.pdf, height = 4, width = 4) par(mfrow = c(2, 2)) barplot(1:5) barplot(1:5) barplot(1:5) barplot(1:5) dev.off() Here is the same with reduced margins: pdf(PDF4.pdf, height = 4, width = 4) par(mfrow = c(2, 2)) par(mar = c(1, 3, 1, 1)) barplot(1:5) barplot(1:5) barplot(1:5) barplot(1:5) dev.off() HTH, Marc Schwartz __ 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
Re: [R] Crop white border for PDF output
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Marc Schwartz wrote: Without your code, it is hard to know exactly what you need to resolve the problem or why your manipulation of the margins did not work as you want, but I am guessing that the following might be helpful. The reason why the manipulation of margins does not make me happy is that I have to name concrete numbers for every diagram. Basically, it would be nice to tell R to produce PDF output without *any* white border. It looks ugly when viewed directly, but it is perfect when included in documents, where, e.g., TeX takes care of spaces between diagrams an captions, etc. Even your examples with the reduced borders still show a white border around the diagram. It would take rather long to get rid of that by using trial and error. The disadvantage with pdfcrop is that it takes an additional step: First, I have to produce the diagrams, then, I have to call pdfcrop on them to crop the white space. pdfcrop does a perfect job here: It crops the complete white space around a diagram automatically without having me to name some concrete numbers. It would be very nice if R would have an option that would allow to do me to do this for graphics that will be included in documents later. Claus __ 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
[R] Crop white border for PDF output
Hi, I produce a series of diagrams with R in order to include them in my documents (LaTeX). However, there is a white border around the diagrams. For some that do not have anything written at the very bottom, the white border is relatively large. The rather big space between figure and caption at the final document looks not nice. It would be best not to have any white border. I played with oma=c(0,0,0,0) and mar=c(0,0,0,0) for single and multiple figure environments, however, without success. Is there an easy way to get rid of the white border for PDF outputs? Thanks for your input. Claus __ 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
