[R] Setting fontsize in dev.copy2eps

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Peter Kleiweg wrote:

>
> I have a figure on screen with a legend. I want to copy this
> image to EPS, and use:
>
>     dev.copy2eps(file="file1.eps", width=5, height=5)
>
> The legend that looks OK on screen doesn't look OK in the
> PostScript image: the text extends out of the box.
>
> I try adding a fontsize command:
>
>     dev.copy2eps(file="file1.eps", width=5, height=5, pointsize=5)
>
> This options seems to get ignored.
>
> I try setting cex to a smaller value, replotting the figure, and
> copying the result to EPS. Result: the font is smaller, but so
> is the text. Legend text still expands outside the legend box.
>
> All works well if I leave out the width and height arguments to
> dev.copy2eps. But then, the figure gets too large, and scaling
> down the figure to a reasonable size when including the figure
> in a document, things like linewidth become to small.
>
> The only way out of this as I see it (apart from not using
> dev.copy2eps) is to enlarge all objects like linewidths,
> fontsizes, etc. So, when the figure is scaled down (when
> including it in a document, leaving it at its default size at
> the moment of saving with dev.copy2eps), the linewidths and
> fontsize come out OK. This seems a bit drastic. Is it even
> possible to resize all elements? For instance, can I enlarge
> dashpatterns? Is there an easier solution?

Just plotting on a postscript() device?  The issue here is that dev.copy
copies the display list, and that has been done with a particular
pointsize.  It's a convenience, only.  You can set the pointsize, but it
does nothing when re-plotting, as I understand it.

> So, these are my problems:
>
> 1. I can't seem to set the fontsize with dev.copy2eps
> 2. I don't really want to set the fontsize with
>    dev.copy2eps. The fontsize is OK. The legend box is too
>    small.

That's a font metric mismatch, I think.

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