[R-SIG-Mac] saving a quartz-plot as pdf

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Sun Jan 18 06:24:05 CET 2009


On Jan 17, 2009, at 9:16 PM, Ferdinand wrote:

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> Am 18.01.2009 um 03:04 schrieb Steve Revilak:
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>>> From: Ferdinand Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:52:26 +0100
>>
>>> is there a command for exporting the current plot as a pdf-file?
>>>
>>> I tried dev.copy(pdf) but it generated a pdf-file I couldn't open  
>>> ("broken").
>>
>> Try
>>
>> quartz.save("my.pdf", type="pdf");
>>
>>
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>
> I get a syntax error ...

I don't. Generally I use the File/Save method.

 > quartz.save("my.pdf", type="pdf");
quartz
      2

I also get the same effect with Jeff Ryan's suggestion:
dev.copy2pdf(file="my.pdf")

You are asked in the posting guide to produce the full error message  
and your sysInfo(), and would suggest adding what you get from  
capabilities()

-- 
David Winsemius
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