thank you!

It seems like the problem was the layout-function automatically changing the cex parameter for the subplots.

adding par(cex =1) after the layout() call solved it.
Now, character expansion levels seem equal across plots.


On Feb 27, 2013, at 00:57 , Greg Snow <538280@gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you queried the value of 'cex' and related parameters at the different time points?  
> 
> The help page for par says that when you set mfcol or mfrow that cex is changed, but I don't know if the layout function also changes those or not.  I would start by peppering your code with calls to par('cex') to see what R thinks the parameter is at the time of the different plots.  That may answer your question, or if not at least give up more information to work with.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Martin Batholdy <batholdy@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to make multiple plots look as similar as possible.
> 
> 
> I create each plot with pdf(), using the same height but different width in inch.
> For some plots I use the layout() function to draw multiple subplots side by side in one pdf.
> 
> For each plot I use the same cex values for the different plotting functions
> (cex.axis, cex.lab, cex.points etc.)
> 
> Still, when I compare the pdf's the axis labels, titles etc. have different size factors!
> 
> Is that expected?
> 
> I thought by fixing the height parameter and using the same character expansion values I would end up with similar plots
> (and especially same font size across pdfs).
> 
> How can I make sure that across multiple plot calls the character expansion level (font size) is the same?
> 
> 
> 
> thanks!
> 
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