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[bhohner at umich.edu]

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Quoting Nicholas Lewin-Koh <nikko at hailmail.net>:

> Hi,
> following this thread I have seen several misunderstandings that I think
> should be cleared up. Firstly, we should be careful what is meant by
> "publication quality", on interpretation is for a particular journal,
> a good resolution graphic in the format they require. In general, the
> meaning refers to the quality and portability of the graphic for
> publishing
> in different media while retaining as much of the original detail as
> possible.
> Some journals require submission in MSworst, for importing graphics
> into a word document, wmf  is microsucks vector format, and is
> probably the most suitable for most statistical graphics. For images
> a bitmap format like png or tiff is  most suitable. I would avoid jpeg,
> as the main purpose of jpeg is compression. If you need to edit
> a graphic outside R, wmf, and svg will allow you to ungroup the graphics
> components and edit them individually in most good drawing programs.
> Personally
> I have had good experiences with svg and inkscape. For color graphics
> where colour gradients are important, I would recommend exporting
> and viewing the graphics in a program with good colour management. R is
> not tied to a colour management system and it is trial and error to
> get colours printed correctly. There has been some discussion of
> incorporating
> little cms, but that is probably a good "google summer of code" project.
>
> In regards to the post below, as of R 2.7, alpha blending is supported
> on most devices if R was compiled with cairo. This is the case
> for the windows distribution, and the default for configure when
> compiling
> from source on linux.
>
> <\begin rant>
> As a personal rant I would suggest that most journals don't publish
> publication quality statistical graphics, as most scientists don't
> produce them.
> Biological journals are full of crammed bar graphs with antennae on top,
> with
> six different fills, that as far as I can tell contain very little
> information.
> All the work done on how to represent information with grammar and
> aesthetics
> goes out the window in journal publications.
> <\end rant>
>
> My 2c. So flame me.
>
> Nicholas
>
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>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:47:49 -0400
>> From: Phil Novack-Gottshall <pnovackg at westga.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [R-sig-eco] Publication quality graphics in R
>> To: r-sig-ecology at r-project.org
>> Message-ID: <200806011448.m51EmWOO008811 at hypatia.math.ethz.ch>
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>> [Apologies if this is a duplicate; I seem to be having e-mail problems.]
>>
>> I've also had trouble dealing with formatting
>> issues from R to a format acceptable for
>> journals.  But I found a really useful
>> recommendation from Cadmus, the art folks for
>> PNAS.  Here's a useful site:
>> http://cpc.cadmus.com/da/tutorials.jsp and
>> http://art.cadmus.com/da/instructions/ps80_win.jsp
>> They're not specific to R, but there's some good general advice.
>>
>> I, too, tend to save images as a .pdf
>> (specificying final size and resolution), and
>> then convert to TIF or EPS using the following (also advised from
>> Cadmus):
>>
>> For EPS:
>> Once you have a PDF file, you can open it with
>> the ?full? version of Acrobat and then do a ?Save
>> as EPS? ? or ? you can open your PDF with Illustrator and then ?Save as
>> EPS.?
>>
>> For TIF:
>> Open the PDF file from within Photoshop. This
>> will allow you to determine resolution
>> (typically, 600 DPI is ideal for most figures).
>> While in Photoshop, go to the menu and click
>> "Layer>Flatten Image", crop (trim) excess white
>> space around the figure, scale it to the correct
>> size, and then "Save As?" a TIF file using LZW (not JPEG or ZIP)
>> compression.
>>
>> This usually works for the journals I've dealt
>> with.  And a benefit of saving directly as PDF is
>> you can use the alpha functionality in
>> color.palette() to set transparency, which is
>> really useful when having overlaying colors.  (To
>> my knowledge, alpha is not allowed when plotting in the R window.)
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>> > > I'd like to hear from the list, how folks specify and export  
>> presentation
>> > > quality and publication quality graphics with R.  I've had problems
>> > > when exporting graphics using the copy-to-clipboard option (both bitmap
>> > > and metafile)
>> > > and also when saving them as jpgs.  They almost always seem to look a
>> > > little funny
>> > > (e.g. pixelation, symbols coming out distorted etc.).  The only option
>> > > that I've had
>> > > much success with is saving them as pdf's, but that format is less than
>> > > ideal when trying
>> > > to incorporate a graphic into another document (e.g. Word or  
>> Powerpoint),
>> > > and is often
>> > > not the format requested by journals.
>> > >
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>    Phil
>> Novack-Gottshall
>> pnovackg at westga.edu
>>
>>    Assistant Professor
>>    Department of Geosciences
>>    University of West Georgia
>>    Carrollton, GA 30118-3100
>>    Phone: 678-839-4061
>>    Fax: 678-839-4071
>>    http://www.westga.edu/~pnovackg
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Bridget Hohner
University of Michigan
School of Natural Resources and Environment
MS Candidate 2009