We haven't been told your OS or the graphics device or how you viewed PDF output. But all text on screen devices is rasterized -- they are raster devices. (That includes your pdf viewer.)
You are writing the label 9 times in the same place. I suspect what you are seeing is a viewer artifact of doing so -- the antialiasing isn't working for you. On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Andrew Yee wrote: > Here's a question: I noticed that when I tried to create this simple > graph of rectangles and text, R appears to generate text that is > rasterized (this is seen both on the monitor and when the output is > directed to a pdf file). Any thoughts? > > value.seq <- c("<4",as.character(seq(from=4,to=10)),">11") > frame() > par(usr=c(0,10,0,10) ) > > for (r in 1:9) { > > rect(r,3,r+1,3.75, border = NA, col=heat.colors(9)[r]) > > #this text does not appear to be rasterized > text(r+0.5,2.75, value.seq[r], cex=0.5) > > #this text appears to be rasterized > > text(5.5,2.25,"expression (log2)", cex=0.5) } > > Thanks, > Andrew > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.