
 
On 11/6/07, Van Campenhout Bjorn <bjorn.vancampenhout@ua.ac.be> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I made a dotplot() with lattice, which comes out nice on the graphics
>> device.  I can save this as a eps using postscript() and include this in
>> a word document.  This prints nice, but does not look good on screen.
>> If I produce a pdf, it is nice on screen, but not on paper.  How can I
>> save a graph that looks nice on paper and on screen?

>Although you haven't said so, I presume your 'paper' output is
>produced by a black and white printer?
>
>You have to define a "theme" (a collection of graphical parameters)
>that is "nice" for both screen and paper. Once you come up with such a
>collection of parameters, ?trellis.par.set should tell you how to set
>them globally. If you want someone else to come up with such a list,
>you are probably out of luck (but see ?col.whitebg for a not-very-good
>approach).

>-Deepayan

Thanks for your reply.  However, I am unsure that this is a "theme" issue.  The problem is that if I run for instance:

names <- rep( c( "country1" , "country2" , "country3" , "country4" ), each = 4 )
groups <- rep( 1:4 , times=4 )
score <- runif(16)*groups
dotplot(names~score, groups=groups, col=c("grey","grey","black","black"), pch=c(21,19,21,19),cex=1.5)

this looks nice in the R graphics device. But if I save or copy the graph as a windows metafile (as recommended on the list when one wants to include a graph in a Word document) the points become slightly deformed when I paste it into word. Is this normal?

Bjorn

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