Lwd ignored when printing on Windows
Prof. Ripley, I'm using one of following the HPLaserJet-4000 (Driver: HP LaserJet 5Si/5Si MX PS) HPLaserJet-4100DTN (Driver: HP LaserJet 8150 PCL 6) You are correct: the lines are thicker on the hardcopy. When I plotted the following: plot(rnorm(10), type = "l", lwd = 5) lines(rnorm(10), lwd = 1) there is a difference on the plot. The first line is slightly darker than the second. So it appears to actually be working properly though it's not apparent unless you have the second line as a reference. Note that saving the plot (File -> Save as) to emf and then printing the resulting file produces much thicker lines using the above print drivers. Regards, Sundar
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
What printer driver are you using? I've just tried this and it works exactly as one would expect on my HP 970CXi, as well as cut-and-paste into other applications. It also worked printing to Acrobat Distiller (although all the lines were thinner there than on-screen and on the 970CXi, the ratio was still 1:5). We've been here before, and had to abandon some optimizations because of a bug in interpreting Windows metafiles in Word. On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
Andy, I've experienced the same thing. What's interesting is that printing a plot (CTRL-P) with lwd = 25 makes lines on the hardcopy look like lwd = 5. I'm using R1.7.1 on Win2000Pro. Regards, Sundar Liaw, Andy wrote:
Dear R-help,
Has anyone notice the problem that, on Windows (NT and XP), when printing a
graph using the "File -> Print..." menu in the graphics window to print the
graph, that line width seemed to be ignored in the printed output? For
example, if I make a plot with plot(1:10, type="l", lwd=5), it looks right
on screen, but when printed out using the menu, it looks like the plot was
made with lwd=1. I've had this problem for quite a while (at least since
1.3.x) and still present in 1.7.1. Has anyone else seen this, or just me?
Best,
Andy
Andy Liaw, PhD
Biometrics Research PO Box 2000, RY33-300
Merck Research Labs Rahway, NJ 07065
mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com <mailto:andy_liaw at merck.com> 732-594-0820
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