[R] png and pdf : point size, font size, etc.

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Since bitmap() used postscript, you may as well use PDF and convert to 
PNG (and bitmap in R-devel uses this as an option).

I've no idea about the size differences, and we don't have a reproducible 
example.  Again, R-devel offers many more options.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Stephan Ripke wrote:

> Hi,
> I am new to this mailing list. Didn`t find the answer in the archives. But I
> guess, there are people out there, who know the solution:
> In an automatic script, I want to produce simple plots. First I prefer pdf,
> because of scalability and standardization. But when I have too many
> datapoints (say 300.000) the viewing and printing is very, very slow. So I
> decided to take some bitmapped format when passing 5.000 datapoints, because
> most of them are in one cloud. As a result, the png is nice and fast to
> handle and in Linux it is very easy to convert it to pdf with imagemagick.
> So far so good. The problem is, that the font size and the point-size of the
> plotpoints and the all of the plot is getting much smaller when using
> png-format. Why is this and how can I circumvent this issue?
> These are the two devices, I am opening for the two reasons:
>
> 1)
> pdf("name_out.pdf",11,3.5)
> 2)
> bitmap("name_out.png",height=3.5,width=11)
>
> all should be the same, isn`t it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Stephan
>
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