[R] several postscript problems

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Stefan Evert wrote:

>
>> I'm currently trying to export a couple of graphs to pdf . Postscript would 
>> be fine too, but I'm using odd page dimensions, which seem to be 
>> overwritten when using the "ps2pdf" command.
>
> From what you wrote I guess that perhaps you don't really want unusual page 
> dimensions, but rather Encapsulated PostScript files, which are automatically 
> cropped to their bounding box  and can be included as images in a latex 
> document (using \includegraphics or such, so you  could arrange the 6 graphs 
> in a standard latex figure environment etc.; and, of course, there's no need 
> to go through PDFs).

Hmm, that is equally true of PDF inclusion by pdftex.  If the end product 
is a PDF file, working with PDF throughout is a better workflow.

> If that's what you want to do, simply use dev.copy2eps(), setting width= and 
> height= to the desired format of the plot and remembering to specify 
> onefile=FALSE (that's a trap I keep falling into ...).
>
> If you still need PDFs, use the "epstopdf" program for the conversion, 
> because ps2pdf will usually mess up your bounding box and revert to a 
> standard page size.

But we provide dev.copy2pdf() ....

>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Evert
>
> [ stefan.evert at uos.de | http://purl.org/stefan.evert ]
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