[R] pictex driver and bargraph shading

[Jain, Rahul (Rahul)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:16 PM
> To: Jain, Rahul (Rahul)
> Cc: 'r-help at lists.r-project.org'
> Subject: Re: [R] pictex driver and bargraph shading
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jain, Rahul (Rahul) wrote:
> 
> > The postscript driver won't do, since I'm trying to embed 
> this in a LaTeX
> > document which I'll use pdflatex on and \includegraphics 
> for pdftex doesn't
> > support postscript. ps2pdf just rasterizes the ps, so it 
> looks terrible.
> 
> What ps2pdf is that?  It shouldn't in a recent ghostscript.

I figured out that the problem was that the font I chose wasn't a standard
pdf font. Changing it to helvetica makes a beautiful .pdf :)

> > I'm willing to do this another way, I just don't want to 
> use rasterized
> > plots in my document.
> 
> What's wrong with using the pdf() driver if you want pdf?

I just realized that debian woody (testing) doesn't have a recent R, so I
compiled the one in unstable, and after removing the test phase (many of the
tests reported failure even though they actually succeeded). But the pdf
driver makes a blank page...

> Alternatively, use the xfig() driver and some suitable back-end.
> 



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