[R-SIG-Mac] "special" paper option of postscript device not working

[Denis Chabot]

Thanks Marc,

You are correct, it works if I add onefile=FALSE. 

But how would you control page size for a multiple-page document (say 5 figures, one per page), for which you would normally use onefile=TRUE?

Denis
Le 2014-09-22 à 13:55, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> a écrit :

> On Sep 22, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Denis Chabot <chabot.denis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The journal where I want to submit does not accept PDF figures, only
>> postscript (or bitmaps, which I want to avoid).
>> 
>> I want to control paper size by combining paper = "special" and "width" and
>> "height" parameters to the postscript command, but the resulting page is
>> always 8 x 11, at least as viewed with Preview and Illustrator.
>> 
>> This is with this code:
>>   postscript(file="test.ps", width=5.5, height=4.25, horizontal=T, paper
>> = "special")
>>   par(mar=c(2.8, 2.8, 1.8, 0.2)+0.1, xpd=F, mgp=c(1.5,0.5,0), cex.lab=1)
>> 
>>   plot(1:10)
>>   dev.off()
>> 
>> The plot occupies 1/4 of the 11x8.5 inch page.
>> 
>> I can live with this, but my reading of the postscript device documentation
>> is that width and height control the size of the paper if I also use the
>> page = "special" option. Because this could be the result of working on a
>> Mac, I write here first, but will ask on the general R Help list if this
>> has nothing to do with the Mac.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Denis
> 
> 
> Denis,
> 
> In general and as noted in the Details section of ?postscript, you will want to create an EPS file, using the following incantation:
> 
>  postscript(file = ..., width = ..., height = ..., horizontal = FALSE, 
>             paper = "special", onefile = FALSE)
> 
> Thus:
> 
> postscript(file = "test.eps", width = 5.5, height = 4.25, 
>           horizontal = FALSE, paper = "special", onefile = FALSE)
> par(mar=c(2.8, 2.8, 1.8, 0.2)+0.1, xpd=F, mgp=c(1.5,0.5,0), cex.lab=1)
> plot(1:10)
> dev.off()
> 
> 
> On my Mac, with OS X 10.9.5, the attached file is generated in the fashion that you would expect.
> 
> There is also the ?setEPS function.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> <test.eps>