[R] Box around legends (and postscript?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jim Lemon wrote:

> "Michael J. Manning" wrote:
> >
> > ...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.
>
> I've noticed the same problem when using dev.print() to produce a
> postscript file. Interestingly, using postscript() directly seems to
> avoid it, although I haven't had the time to discover why.

Well, dev.print copies a display list from device to device, and doesn't
always get the fonts set up the same way (although it tries).  Trying set
pointsize in the call to dev.print.

It's normally better to remake the plot than copy it if you want precise
control.

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