Re: [R] ps or pdf

2008-04-04 Thread Tribo Laboy
> The graphics devices are very similar (they share a lot of code). One > small difference is that PostScript has an arc primitive, and PDF does > not. > Sorry for interjecting, but I have a burning question. It is a bit off topic, so I apologize in advance. What is the stance of the R Develo

Re: [R] ps or pdf

2008-04-01 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
have not followed the thread completely, but: have you tried `bitmap' with `type = pdfwrite' (or psgrb) for comparison? at least with `pdf' there are some issues which can be avoided by using ghostscript via `bitmap'. joerg On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:17:50PM -0400, Francois Pepin wrote: > Prof B

Re: [R] ps or pdf

2008-04-01 Thread Stefan Grosse
On Monday 31 March 2008 10:17:50 pm Francois Pepin wrote: FP> Example of row names that are truncated in Illustrator (* denoting FP> truncation): FP> CCDC3*4 (2nd row) FP> MUC2*0 (3rd row) FP> MBNL*1 (8th row) Those are not truncated with me but there are some truncated, this is true. Note that

Re: [R] ps or pdf

2008-03-31 Thread Francois Pepin
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Please see the footer of this message. Sorry, here is an example. For some reason, I cannot reproduce it without using actual gene names. set.seed(1) ##The row names were originally obtained using the hgug4112a library ##from bioconductor. I set it manually for peop

Re: [R] ps or pdf

2008-03-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Francois Pepin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have been making a fair amount of figures in R recently that I've > been touching up with Illustrator and I've found a difference between > pdf and ps files and I was wondering if someone could enlighten me > about them. > > While the

[R] ps or pdf

2008-03-31 Thread Francois Pepin
Hi everyone, I have been making a fair amount of figures in R recently that I've been touching up with Illustrator and I've found a difference between pdf and ps files and I was wondering if someone could enlighten me about them. While the figures look the same, the ps version tends to have trunc