[R] Font quality in base graphics

[Mark Difford]

Hi willemf,

And perhaps I should have added (in case you are moving across systems) that
you should take a look at 

?embedFonts
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf

Ghostscript should be installed on your box, so there shouldn't be a
problem. Without additional information, it's not possible to help further.
Of course, you could send me the data and a script showing how you want it
plotted, and I would send you a PDF in return, showing you what R can do ;).

HTH, Mark.



Mark Difford wrote:
> 
> Hi willemf,
> 
> Glad to hear that it helped.  Years ago (late-90s) I Linuxed, but have
> since been forced into the Windows environment (where, however, I have the
> great pleasure of being able to use MiKTeX and LyX, i.e. TeX/LaTeX). I
> therefore can't help you further, except to say that I have never had a
> problem controlling font sizes &c to my admittedly very demanding --- some
> people say excessively demanding --- standards (and that's on Windows!).
> And I have never had a problem with labels &c not being where they should
> be, or of the size I want them to be, when I have built the graphic from
> "scratch." And only very rarely have I encountered such problems when
> using canned graph types.
> 
> In brief, what I am saying is that the problem almost certainly lies with
> the way fonts &c are set up on your Linux box. Were this not the case,
> then I can assure you that there would have many and varied sharply worded
> statements on this list relating to the poor quality of R's graphs. And
> there would have been just as many pointed, well-written rebukes, pointing
> that .... Yet there aren't. If you search the archives you will find that
> a good many users migrated to R from other systems because of R's
> excellent graphical subsystems. Look at the graphics in any of the many
> books now published on using R, or that use R to elucidate problems....
> Set your mind at rest: look at your system setup, and the tools outside R
> that you are using.
> 
> Hope it all works out. OpenOffice is now a very good suite of programs,
> but if you want true quality of output then you really should be TeXing.
> Check it out.
> 
> Bye, Mark.
> 
> 
> willemf wrote:
>> 
>> Mark, your suggestion results in about 75% control over the plot. This is
>> the best that I have managed to get it at, so thank you very much. In
>> Linux you create a X11() device for screen output. Specifying identical
>> device characteristics results in a fair degree of similarity between
>> screen version and EPS version. However in this case, for instance, some
>> labels along the X axis are omitted in the screen version and
>> (thankfullly!) included in the Postscript version. Also, the relative
>> sizes of caption font size and label font size are not identical in the
>> two versions. I have learnt a few things in this exercise, so thanks you
>> very much for the advice.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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