[Rd] Re: postscript image problem (PR#6763)

[jonathan_lees at unc.edu]

It is true that if you turn antialiasing
off on GV then the effect seems to disappear but that is just a cosmetic 
thing.
Other aspects of the figure are subsequently degraded, however.

I am really interested in converting the postscript to good JPEG images and
I can't get rid of the annoying lines when I use display or
convert (in LINUX).
If I could figure our how to get a good JPEG figure I would be
satisfied.

Thanks for any help.




paul murrell wrote:

>Hi
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>>Full_Name: Jonathan Lees
>>I am having trouble with the postscript output of images.
>>They have lines on them that are not supposed to be there.
>>I have noticed this on numerous trials of printing various images.
>>I looked at the postscript and I see that it
>>appears to plot each individual block - so perhaps occasionally the 
>>space between the blocks "leaks" through do to round off,
>>thus contaminating the image.
>>this could be solved if the image software used postscript
>>image plotting functions.
>>
>>Here is an example of some code:
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>>postscript(file ="test.ps" , onefile=FALSE, print.it=FALSE)
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>>w<-5 #width of central square
>>m=w
>>xn<- 128; yn<- 128
>>im<- matrix(0,nrow=yn,ncol=xn)
>>xc<-floor(xn/2)+1;
>>yc<- floor(yn/2)+1 # centers of the image
>>im[(-m:m)+xc,(-m:m)+yc]<- 1
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>>image(im , col = cmap ); title('im=Original image')
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>>dev.off()
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>>view this output with any postscript viewer (or printer)
>>and you will see extra lines on the plot.
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>Is this just caused by antialiasing on the postscript viewer.  I see this with
>anti-aliasing on, but it goes away if I turn antialiasing off.  Of course, that
>wouldn't explain the effect when a document is printed, but I don't get that.
>
>Paul
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