Sorry I forgot these informations. I'm using R 2.70, under Linux (Debian
Etch). The png driver uses cairo, and the version of libcairo installed
is 1.2.4 (which is not the latest, but more recent versions are not
available is the debian stable repositories)
I tried bitmap(), and it does not look good, because there is no
antialiasing.
I tried a lot of different settings with png(). Setting the size in
inches and the resolution did not help. pointsize does help, but seems
limited: increasing pointsize does not do anything after a certain
value. It's like there's a maximum font size in pixels that I can
achieve. Does that make any sense?
This size is barely OK if I want an image of 1024x1024 pixels, which
should be OK.
However, there is still the problem of line width, wich are not affected
by "pointsize". Of course, I can modify the linewidth directly for every
plot, but it would be easier with a global setting of ggplot ?
Many thanks,
Xavier
Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
You forgot to mention your version of R and your platform (and R has
at least 3 separate png() devices).
In 2.7.0, specify the size in inches and increase the resolution.
In earlier versions, try bitmap(). From NEWS for 2.7.0
o Considerable efforts have been made to make the default output
from graphics devices as similar as possible (and in
particular close to that from postscript/pdf). Many devices
were misinterpreting 'pointsize' in some way, for example as
being in device units (pixels) rather than in points.
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Xavier Chardon wrote:
Hi all,
I prepared a few charts with ggplot2, and was happy with the results
as displayed on screen.
I tried to draw them with a PNG driver instead. But I ran into
several problems while trying to increase the resolution of the picture.
Mainly, when I increased the picture size (e.g png(width=1024,
height=768) ), the texts (title, labels, etc...) where too small. I
tried to set the "pointsize" option of the driver. That did the
trick, to some extent. But it seems limited, and I couldn't get big
enough fonts for high resolution images. Also, I tried the
"resolution" setting of the driver. But this has an effect on lots of
things, e.g. the length of the lines in the legend, so I gave up this
idea.
I tried to change the font size of all elements, with e.g.
grid.gedit("label", gp=gpar(cex=4) ). But the position of the labels
does not change then, and with the bigger font, they are drawn on top
of the axis or of its title.
Another problem was that the line width is also too small in big
images. I couldn't find a way to change it globally.
So, is there a way to go easily from a plot that looks good on screen
(X11 driver) to a similar png image? Or is it possible to change the
default settings of ggplot2 (line size and font size in particular,
which are not covered by the ggopt function) ? I guess people usually
export their charts as image files, so hopefully there's an easy
solution.
Many thanks,
Xavier
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