[R] Preparing high quality figures with tiff as end result

[Prof Brian Ripley]

One bit you didn't tell us was that the journal asks for 600dpi TIFF 
files, but you also forgot to tell R that.

Try bitmap(type="tifflzw", res=600) -- you probably will not need 
anti-aliasing.

On Fri, 23 May 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Try bitmap(): this produces PostScript and converts with ghostscript.
>
> BTW, everything (including text) in TIFF files *is* 'low-res bitmaps' by 
> definition, so you cannot avoid this.  Anti-aliasing *may* help, and the 
> bitmap() device in R-devel supports it.
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2008, Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm currently preparing some figures that will be submitted to PloS One.
>> In their guidelines they state that they will only accept figures in
>> tiff or eps format, with the warning that eps figures will be
>> converted to tiff format ( see
>> http://www.plosone.org/static/figureGuidelines.action ).
>> 
>> Because of this conversion, I figured I'd generate tiff-format figures
>> from the beginning.
>> However, a number of issues cropped up:
>> 1) using
>> 
>> library(Cairo)
>> CairoTIFF("test.tif")
>> 
>> I get " Sorry, this Cairo was compiled without tiff support.". I tried
>> finding out how to recompile Cairo, but got lost in a lot of confusing
>> talk about GTK+, downloaded dll files that I didn't know how to use
>> etc.
>> 
>> so I turned to plain tiff(), and
>> 
>> 2) R started crashing on me.The following code
>> 
>> tiff("test.tif")
>> plot(rnorm(100))
>> dev.off()
>> 
>> ,crashes R (i.e "R GUI has encountered a problem and needs to
>> close...") every third time or so.
>> When it does work, the resulting output is not too pretty.
>
> Which means what?
>
>> So I turned to using postscript files. However, Plos One requires that
>> fonts be embedded into the figure.
>> embedFonts()  works for this, but the result is that text becomes
>> low-res bitmaps, and I don't know how to solve this.
>> 
>> So basically my question is: How should I go about generating graphics
>> that will look as nice as possible given the above constraints?
>> 
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Gustaf
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci.
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>> address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE
>> skype:gustaf_rydevik
>> 
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> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595