[R] Jpeg and pixel

Alberto Monteiro albmont at centroin.com.br
Tue Mar 11 12:23:37 CET 2008


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> How would I know?  If you doubt this, try it with a standard font 
> and compare.
> 
> Note what I said about artefacts: something other than R is involved 
> when you print.  This is the sort of thing which happens if bitmap 
> images are not printed at their native resolution.
> 
I saw that R can write in SVG format, using the RSVGTipsDevice
library. I think SVG is the closest format to losslessness 
when printing.

Of course, my ecological motivation would ban all formats that
make printing easy, to save the environment by saving a few trees :-)

Alberto Monteiro



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