[R] Problem with colormodel in pdf driver

[Luis Torgo]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Luis Torgo wrote:
>
>> Greg Snow wrote:
>>> You may want to consider a dotchart instead of a barplot.  Then you 
>>> can distinguish between groups by using symbols, grouping, and 
>>> labels rather than depending on colors/shades of grey.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks Greg. The only problem is that I was trying to illustrate the 
>> use of barplot() ...
>>
>> I guess for now I can always use the pdf() driver with the default 
>> RGB colormodel and then use command line tools (e.g. ImageMagick) to 
>> convert the resulting graphs to grayscale...
>
> You won't be able to convert PDF to PDF with ImageMagick (possible 
> with a helper).
Well actually I can and it worked perfectly. Just did:
$> mogrify *.pdf -type Grayscale

and all my PDFs got changed from RGB to Grayscale. Maybe a problem with 
versions of ImageMagick.... mine is

$> mogrify -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.7 08/21/08 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

>
>> Thanks all for the help.
>
> Or update your R, as the posting guide suggested.  It works in 
> R-patched and R-devel.
That's good news. I'll give it a try, thanks.



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