[R] Lwd ignored when printing on Windows

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

Andy,
   I've experienced the same thing. What's interesting is that printing 
a plot (CTRL-P) with lwd = 25 makes lines on the hardcopy look like lwd 
= 5. I'm using R1.7.1 on Win2000Pro.

Regards,
Sundar

Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Dear R-help,
> 
> Has anyone notice the problem that, on Windows (NT and XP), when printing a
> graph using the "File -> Print..." menu in the graphics window to print the
> graph, that line width seemed to be ignored in the printed output?  For
> example, if I make a plot with plot(1:10, type="l", lwd=5), it looks right
> on screen, but when printed out using the menu, it looks like the plot was
> made with lwd=1.  I've had this problem for quite a while (at least since
> 1.3.x) and still present in 1.7.1.  Has anyone else seen this, or just me?
> 
> Best,
> Andy
> 
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