Hi
Mikkel Grum wrote: > Dear useRs, > > Why are the rotated blue and yellow boxes in the example below clipped > outside of 6 x 6 inch window in the middle of the page?? Where does the 6 x 6 > inch window come from? I would like to make use of the entire page. 6x6 corresponds to the default size of the pdf() device, so it looks like an issue with the implementation of paper="a4". Indeed, this variation works as expected for me ... pdf(file = "FarmMaps.pdf", width=7.6, height=11) I will look at why the original approach does not work. Paul >> library(grid) >> pdf(file = "FarmMaps.pdf", paper = "a4") >> pushViewport(viewport( > + width = unit(7.6, "inches"), height = unit(11, "inches"), clip = "off")) >> grid.rect(gp = gpar(col = NA, fill = "grey")) >> pushViewport(viewport(x = unit(3.6, "inches"), y = unit(3.6, "inches"), > + width = unit(3.6, "inches"), height = unit(3.6, "inches"), clip = "off", > + angle = 76)) >> grid.rect(gp = gpar(col = NA, fill = "blue")) >> upViewport() >> pushViewport(viewport(x = unit(1.8, "inches"), y = unit(7.6, "inches"), > + width = unit(2.6, "inches"), height = unit(2.6, "inches"), clip = "off", > + angle = -56)) >> grid.rect(gp = gpar(col = NA, fill = "yellow")) >> >> dev.off() > null device > 1 >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_Ireland.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Ireland.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Ireland.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Ireland.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] "grid" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" > [7] "methods" "base" > > > > Any assistance greatly appreciated, > Mikkel > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. > http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.