[R] Font quality in base graphics

[Mark Difford]

Hi wf

>> I just cannot believe that R does not have a good command of this.

Curious. I find R's graphical output matchless. Almost without exception I
use postscript and find the controls available under base graphics (?par) or
"lattice" adequate (to understate). Very occassionally I fiddle with the
postscript pointsize setting, but not often.

If you are struggling to get relative sizes as you want them then plot to  a
window (device) of the same size as the "on-paper" graphic you want. Under
Windows, for example, open a windows device with:

windows(width = 6.5, height = 6.5 * .75, pointsize = 12)

Then plot to it to check the scaling. If fine, then do:

postscript(paper="special", width=6.5, height=6.5*.75, pointsize=12,
onefile=F, horizontal=F)

Then plot, and dev.off(). ???

HTH, Mark.


willemf wrote:
> 
> Thank you Jeff, I will follow up on this. I just cannot believe that R
> does not have a good command of this. The obvious route is Postscript
> ourput, since it is not raster-based and one can incorporate EPS files
> into OpenOffice documents. However, when printing to a Postscript device,
> there is no control over the size of the text with respect to the graphics
> (at least I have not managed to obtain that level of control, even when
> restricting graphic size by specifying fin = c(3,3). The fundamental
> challenge for R is to generate identical copies of
> onscreen/pdf/PNG/postscript output. As far as I deduce this is not
> possible at present. Thanks for your comments. Regards, wf
> 

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