Hi All, I've been trying to make some adjustments to the graphics in a paper I wrote some time ago, for which the comments have been returned from the reviewers. I always use R for publication graphics...I think it does the best job available, for the things I am interested in. I could not get my graphics in R 181 to look the same as the old ones (completed 8 months ago), the text seemed a bit squashed together when I copied graphics as meta-files into word. I have found that by re-installing version 1.51, the graphics look as nice as the previous ones, with the text nicely spaced. Is there a "par" parameters that will adjust the letter spacing, so I can use version 181 for this type of job? Thanks, Matt R. Redding Senior Environmental Scientist, Intensive livestock and sheep Agency for Food and Fibre Sciences Department of Primary Industries Telephone 07 4688 1372 Fax 07 4688 1192 Email matthew.redding at dpi.qld.gov.au Website http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/ilsu/ Call Centre 13 25 23 ********************************DISCLAIMER******************...{{dropped}}
Letter Spacing
3 messages · Redding, Matthew, Brian Ripley, Renaud Lancelot
We are not aware of any related changes between R 1.5.1 and R 1.8.1, and no one else has reported a problem. Text strings in R graphics are plotted directly in the font specified and not as individual letters, so there is nothing you can do about letter spacing in R. I would first cross-check that the same fonts have been used in both systems (and that includes exact sizes of fonts), then check that a metafile viewer (Windows XP comes with one, for example) shows the difference. I am afraid that most of the problems we have investigated with metafiles were traced to bugs in Word.
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Redding, Matthew wrote:
Hi All, I've been trying to make some adjustments to the graphics in a paper I wrote some time ago, for which the comments have been returned from the reviewers. I always use R for publication graphics...I think it does the best job available, for the things I am interested in. I could not get my graphics in R 181 to look the same as the old ones (completed 8 months ago), the text seemed a bit squashed together when I copied graphics as meta-files into word. I have found that by re-installing version 1.51, the graphics look as nice as the previous ones, with the text nicely spaced. Is there a "par" parameters that will adjust the letter spacing, so I can use version 181 for this type of job? Thanks, Matt R. Redding Senior Environmental Scientist, Intensive livestock and sheep Agency for Food and Fibre Sciences Department of Primary Industries Telephone 07 4688 1372 Fax 07 4688 1192 Email matthew.redding at dpi.qld.gov.au Website http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/ilsu/ Call Centre 13 25 23 ********************************DISCLAIMER******************...{{dropped}}
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Hi All, I've been trying to make some adjustments to the graphics in a paper I wrote some time ago, for which the comments have been returned from the reviewers. I always use R for publication graphics...I think it does the best job available, for the things I am interested in. I could not get my graphics in R 181 to look the same as the old ones (completed 8 months ago), the text seemed a bit squashed together when I copied graphics as meta-files into word. I have found that by re-installing version 1.51, the graphics look as nice as the previous ones, with the text nicely spaced. Is there a "par" parameters that will adjust the letter spacing, so I can use version 181 for this type of job?
I am using Word 2000. I have the best results copying the screen output to a file using dev.copy(), e.g. plot(blabla) dev.copy(win.metafile, "mygraph.wmf") dev.off() (and then insert the graphic file into the Word document). In particular, it gives me neater lines than with the GUI menus, either copying/pasting the graph into Word, or saving it to a file. Best, Renaud
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