[R-SIG-Mac] pdf graph is mirror image in 2.7.0 (alpha)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, William Revelle wrote:

> Dear R.Gui developers
>
> While testing out the wonderful graphics window in 2.7.0, I decided
> to see about saving a figure.
>
> (Save does not seem to be an option in 2.7.0)
>
> So,  I tried:
>>  quartz("test1",type="pdf")
>>  plot(1:5,1:5)
>>  dev.off()
> null device
>           1
>
> This leads to a figure that is the mirror image of the correct one.

Yes, that's known (and I have reported it to Simon).  There is code in 
place intended to do the flipping, and similar code works for type="png".
So we need someone who understands Quartz better than me to look at it.

>
> However, as in 2.6.2,
>>  pdf()
>>  plot(1:6,1:6)
>>  dev.off()
> creates a file that is correct.
>
>
>
> R version 2.7.0 alpha (2008-04-05 r45110)
> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Thanks for all the great work
>
> Bill
>
>
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