[R] high resolution images for publication

[Patrick Connolly]

On Thu, 13-Oct-2005 at 05:33PM -0500, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:

|> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 15:20 -0600, Chris Buddenhagen wrote:
|> > Dear all
|> 
|> > I am using R to produce ordinations library(vegan) and the plot function
|> > produced looks great on the screen but when I send it to jpg or pdf or eps
|> > the resolution is not so good. Can you tell me how to get high resolution
|> > images out of R for publication?
|> 
|> It would be helpful to see the actual code that you are using, as is
|> asked for in the Posting Guide.
|> 
|> For publication, it would be rare to want to use a bitmapped format such
|> as jpg/png.

300 dpi PNGs work quite well in my experience, and not many will take
PDF.  It helps if you know what size they're to end up and make plots
accordingly to avoid any need to resize.  JPGs are good for
photographs, but not for line work.

|> 
|> pdf and eps are vector based formats and would be generally preferred
|> over the above.

For publishers who insist on TIFF format, it should be noted that
despite the fact that they're very large, they compress well and can
be decompressed by the publisher.

best

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