[R] plot to postscript orientation-update

[Miruna Petrescu-Prahova]

Well, it seems that having a square page works...If you modify the width or 
height so that they are not equal, it goes back to the same problem. I guess 
this is good enough for now.

Miruna

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Kane" <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca>
To: "Vorlow Constantinos" <CVorlow at eurobank.gr>; <mpetresc at uci.edu>
Cc: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [R] plot to postscript orientation-update


> Follow-up
>
> I seem to have manged to get the eps file to work
> using:
>
> postscript("C:/temp/figure.eps", horizontal=F,
> paper="special", height=8, width=8, pointsize=12)
>
> Exactly why I'm not sure since I just copied some old
> code that I had used a year or so ago.
> --- Vorlow Constantinos <CVorlow at eurobank.gr> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My vanilla code works fine...
>>
>> See also attached .eps file (seperate email sent
>> directly to you)
>>
>> > r<-rnorm(100)
>> > postscript("figure.eps")
>> > plot.ts(r)
>> > dev.off()
>>
>> Also this works ok as you have been told already:
>>
>> > paper="special" in the postscript() call.
>>
>> If you see my eps file wrongly then your GSVIEW
>> setup is wrong.
>>
>> Choose Orientation "Auto" and under Options (bottom
>> half)
>> click-select-tick everything except "Ignore DSC".
>>
>> That should do the trick...
>>
>> Costas
>>
>> Miruna Petrescu-Prahova wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>>
>> >
>>
>> > I am trying to save some plots in a postscript
>> file. When I generate
>> the
>>
>> > plots in the main window, they appear correctly -
>> their orientation is
>>
>>
>> > landscape (i.e., horizontal). However, when I open
>> the .ps file with
>> GSview,
>>
>> > the whole page appears vertically, and the plot
>> appears horizontally,
>> which
>>
>> > means that the plot is only partially visible
>> (example here
>>
>> >
>>
> https://webfiles.uci.edu/mpetresc/postscript.files/default.ps
>>
> <https://webfiles.uci.edu/mpetresc/postscript.files/default.ps>
>>  ). I
>> searched
>>
>> > the R-help mailing list archive and found 2
>> suggestions: setting the
>> width
>>
>> > and height and setting horizontal = FALSE. I have
>> tried setting the
>> width
>>
>> > and height but it makes no difference. I have also
>> tried using
>> "horizontal =
>>
>> > FALSE". This rotates and elongates the plot, but
>> it is still displayed
>>
>>
>> > horizontally on a vertical page, and so only
>> partially visible
>> (example
>>
>> > here
>>
> https://webfiles.uci.edu/mpetresc/postscript.files/horiz.false.ps
>>
> <https://webfiles.uci.edu/mpetresc/postscript.files/horiz.false.ps>
>> ). I
>>
>>
>> > am not sure what is wrong. Plots are created with
>> "filled.contour".
>>
>>
>>
>> I guess this is a misconfiguration of your GSview.
>> The plots are fine
>>
>> for me. Anyway, you might also want to set the
>> argument
>>
>> paper="special" in the postscript() call.
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>> > Thanks
>>
>> > Miruna
>>
>> >
>>
>> >
>>
>> > ************************************************
>>
>> > Miruna Petrescu-Prahova
>>
>> > Department of Sociology
>>
>> > University of California, Irvine
>>
>> > mpetresc at uci.edu
>>
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