[R] pictex driver and bargraph shading

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jain, Rahul (Rahul) wrote:

> I'm trying to use the pictex driver for bargraphs, and the shading isn't
> showing up. Is there any way to get some sort of shading in the plots? A
> hatch or stipple would be fine, too; just some way to differentiate the
> bars.

The pictex driver has very limited support.

> The postscript driver won't do, since I'm trying to embed this in a LaTeX
> document which I'll use pdflatex on and \includegraphics for pdftex doesn't
> support postscript. ps2pdf just rasterizes the ps, so it looks terrible.

What ps2pdf is that?  It shouldn't in a recent ghostscript.

> I'm willing to do this another way, I just don't want to use rasterized
> plots in my document.

What's wrong with using the pdf() driver if you want pdf?

Alternatively, use the xfig() driver and some suitable back-end.

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