[R] Maybe OT: large fonts in eps-figures

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Sven Garbade wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> if I copy an x11() graphics device to an eps-file (with dev.copy2eps())
> the font in the legend is very large and doesn't fit to the legend box
> in the eps-file (same with a postscript file). I'm not sure if this is a
> R problem rather than a ghostscript one.
>
> But is there a way to solve this problem in R or depends this on my
> ghostscript installation?

Set the ps arg when you copy.  Or (better) don't use dev.copy2eps() but
re-plot on a postscript device.

All dev.copy and hence dev.copy2eps does is to replay the graphics calls,
and in some cases device-specific decisions have already been made when the
call was first run.


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