Thanks for your help with this behaviour. I have tried a few other things, and it looks like it is an issue of using the clipboard to copy it in rather than saving to a file then copying. A bit odd, but maybe nothing to do with R! Matt Redding -----Original Message----- From: Redding, Matthew Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2004 2:09 PM To: 'Prof Brian Ripley' Subject: RE: [R] Letter Spacing Hi All, Thanks to everyone who answered the question! Just a little more information on the behaviour. I re-installed the latest version of R, and re-installed version 1.51. I ran the r program that produces the graph in each of the versions. The latest version produces compressed text when they are inserted in Word 2000, while the older version did not. I am pretty sure it is a real effect, since it has occured with new installations, the same r program, and the same version of windows and word. I have only tested it with enhanced metafont files, have yet to try it with pdf. Using pdf is a good call though....usually fixes a lot of word bad behaviour. Thanks, Matt Redding -----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, 9 January 2004 6:33 PM To: Redding, Matthew Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] Letter Spacing 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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