[R] Windows Printing and Line Widths

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Those printers AFAIK support postscript.

How are you printing to them on Linux?  I suggest you use dev.print under 
Windows (it needs some setup, see ?postscript).  That makes more sense 
than going via PDF as the support is all already in R and it is AFAIK the 
printer's native mode.

We've seen far too many problems with HP Windows printer drivers on 8000 
and 4000 series printers.


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote:

> Hi all,
> I develop and print from both Windows and Linux, and am seeing some
> printing inconsistencies first described about a year and a half ago by
> Andy Liaw (see below). Specifically, the line widths on my windows plots
> are about 5 times smaller than that on Linux, and my windows printouts
> do not match what my screen looks like. However, if I print to a pdf
> file first, then I can get accurate Windows reproduction of my screen. I
> was thinking of writing a windows.print() wrapper that creates a
> temporary pdf file and then prints that. However, I wanted to see if a
> better solution now exists to get identical printouts on both Linux and
> Windows (since Andy's original post), or any comments on what printers
> this does or does not affect.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> HP Laserjet 8150DN
> HP Color Laserjet 4600DN
> HP Laserjet 4050TN
>
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    2
> minor    0.1
> year     2004
> month    11
> day      15
> language R
>
> ---------------------------------
> From: Prof Brian Ripley
> Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 23:59:29 EDT
>
>
> What printer driver are you using?
>
>
> I've just tried this and it works exactly as one would expect on my HP
> 970CXi, as well as cut-and-paste into other applications. It also worked
>
> printing to Acrobat Distiller (although all the lines were thinner there
>
> than on-screen and on the 970CXi, the ratio was still 1:5).
>
>
> We've been here before, and had to abandon some optimizations because of
> a
> bug in interpreting Windows metafiles in Word.
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
>
>
>> Andy,
>> I've experienced the same thing. What's interesting is that printing
>> a plot (CTRL-P) with lwd = 25 makes lines on the hardcopy look like
> lwd
>> = 5. I'm using R1.7.1 on Win2000Pro.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sundar
>>
>> Liaw, Andy wrote:
>>> Dear R-help,
>>>
>>> Has anyone notice the problem that, on Windows (NT and XP), when
> printing a
>>> graph using the "File -> Print..." menu in the graphics window to
> print the
>>> graph, that line width seemed to be ignored in the printed output?
> For
>>> example, if I make a plot with plot(1:10, type="l", lwd=5), it looks
> right
>>> on screen, but when printed out using the menu, it looks like the
> plot was
>>> made with lwd=1. I've had this problem for quite a while (at least
> since
>>> 1.3.x) and still present in 1.7.1. Has anyone else seen this, or
> just me?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> Andy Liaw, PhD
>>> Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300
>>> Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065
>>> mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com <mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com> 732-594-0820
>
>>>
>>>
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