[R] some EPS rotated in journal preview

Knut Krueger admin at biostatistic.de
Wed Jan 18 16:38:26 CET 2006



Prof Brian Ripley schrieb:

> The problem is a well-known one in viewers looking at whole pages,
> especially PS -> PDF converters.  R figures are particularly 
> vulnerable as they have text running both horizontally and vertically 
> (with normal axes).
>
> Please do follow exactly the advice on the postscript help page.
>
>      The postscript produced for a single R plot is EPS (_Encapsulated
>      PostScript_) compatible, and can be included into other documents,
>      e.g., into LaTeX, using '\includegraphics{<filename>}'.  For use
>      in this way you will probably want to set 'horizontal = FALSE,
>      onefile = FALSE, paper = "special"'.
>
>>
>> postscript("c:/temp/fig04.eps",bg="transparent",onefile = TRUE 
>> ,pointsize=20,paper = 
>> "letter",height=8,width=8,horizontal=FALSE,family = "Helvetica", font 
>> = "Helvetica")
>
postscript("c:/temp/fig04.eps",bg="transparent",height=8,width=8,bg="transparent",pointsize=20,horizontal 
= FALSE,onefile = FALSE, paper = "special",family = "Helvetica", font = 
"Helvetica")

There is a error from  boxplot without ,height=8,width=8
error in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß ( margins to big)

but I am afraid that they have autorotation on. I will aks the journal 
to switch it off.

Regards Knut




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