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

[Denis Chabot]

Agreed, Marc,

But I more often use the pdf or quartz engines, and I find it useful to
produce multiple page figures to screen results from experiments (several
plots per page, each of a different type, one page per replication of the
experiment.

I was just checking if I could just replace my pdf command by postscript
and get the same thing. I agree with you that this would not be
particularly useful (compared with pdf).

Denis
Le 2014-09-23 à 07:27, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marc_schwartz at me.com');>> a écrit :

Denis,

If you are submitting figures to a journal, you don't want a multipage
file, you want one plot per file and EPS is a single page format.

They will usually then embed that EPS figure/file in whatever process they
use to create the full paper. If they are using LaTeX, there are
\includegraphics directives in the source .tex file that will tell the
LaTeX processor to insert the EPS file (or other file types) into the
resultant document at that point.

If you want a multipage PS file, you can create that, just like a multipage
PDF file, but it would not be suitable for the submission of figures.

For example:

postscript("Multipage.ps", height = 5, width = 5)
barplot(1:5)
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

However, each page will be the same size (eg. US letter or A4, as defined
by options()$papersize) and the plot size within the page will be defined
by the height and width arguments.

Regards,

Marc

On Sep 22, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Denis Chabot <chabot.denis at gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','chabot.denis at gmail.com');>> wrote:

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
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marc_schwartz at me.com');>> a écrit :

On Sep 22, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Denis Chabot <chabot.denis at gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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>

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