[R] Box around legends (and postscript?)

Aaron J Mackey ajm6q at virginia.edu
Mon Dec 10 23:25:15 CET 2001


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You might want to check that paper="letter" (the default seems
to be "a4", which, for me, has the same behavior you see: find graphics
X11 windows, truncated paper output).

- -Aaron

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Michael J. Manning wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Humbly begging forgiveness for bothering the list with yesterday's
> lame--arsed question.  Postscript, being a vector graphics file format,
> is, um, resolution independant.  The problem as Peter pointed out was
> with the gimp, which defaults to 100dpi resolution when viewing
> postscript files.
>
> I have another (lame?) question.  I have noted that when I produce a
> graph with multiple plots (e.g. 2x2 plots on the graphics device)
> where each plot has multiple series and a legend with reasonable
> amounts of text describing the series, the right hand side of the box
> surrounding the legend always seems to be drawn through the legend
> text when I write the output to a postscript file.  The image
> displayed by the x11 device on screen seems fine, with the legend
> box drawn neatly around the legend text.  I have tried altering the
> character size and location of the legend text inside the legend
> function (cex options etc) without success, i.e. although the legend
> box may be drawn neatly on the x11 device on screen, it cuts the
> legend text when the output is written to a postscript file whatever I
> try.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> MJM
>
>
> Michael J. Manning
> Stock Monitoring and Data Services
> National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA)
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> Wellington, New Zealand
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