Karl,

dev2bitmap runs its output through Ghostscript, and I assume that the
difference is somehow due to that. I can't say whether Ghostscript is
decreasing the file quality or just doing something clever, though.

Jonathan


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Karl Brand <k.brand@erasmusmc.nl> wrote:

> Thank you Erik!
>
> That works nicely now. The file size in (in kilobytes) is equal to the
> "File>Save As>PDF" method.
>
> Still curious why the file sizes (in Kb), differ by a factor of ~2 between
> the two methods:
>
> pdf()
> dev2bitmap(method = "pdf")
>
> I'm just *assuming* here that file size is inidcative of image quality. Is
> this assumption correct? If so, how would one increase .pdf quality within
> the  dev2bitmap() function?
>
> With thanks for any further thoughts on this, cheers,
>
> Karl
>
>
>
>
> On 6/30/2010 4:58 PM, Erik Iverson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> Method 3:
>>> > pdf(file="my_plot.pdf", paper="a4")
>>> > dev.off()
>>>
>>
>> The `pdf` function opens a *new* graphics device, you then send output
>> to the device before calling dev.off(), e.g.,
>>
>> pdf(file = my_plot.pdf")
>> plot(1:10, 1:10)
>> dev.off()
>>
>>
>>
>>> -yields a .pdf file of 1kb (same plot example) and returns the
>>> following error when attempting to open with Adobe acrobat:
>>>
>>> "There was an error opening this document. This file cannot be opened
>>> because it has no pages."
>>>
>>
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