Thank you for looking at my code. You are absolutely right. I'm mortified that I didn't see the text() tucked inside the for loop. Once I took it out of the loop, the text() works fine.
Thanks, Andrew On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.