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Controlling Postscript output, size and orientation

4 messages · Patrick Connolly, Nathan Vandergrift, Brian Ripley

Patrick Connolly
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On Thu, 29-Nov-2007 at 01:22PM -0800, Nathan Vandergrift wrote:
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|> I'm trying to get my graphics so that I can use them in LaTeX to create (via
|> ) a pdf presentation.
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|> I've tried controlling inner and outer margins and figure size using par(),
|> to no avail. The ps output keeps appearing as a portrait page with a
|> centered figure. Nothing I have been able to do so far has changed that.

Check out the paper argument to the postscript device.  I think you'll
be more sucessful.


HTH
Nathan Vandergrift
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Patrick Connolly-4 wrote:
The issue isn't so much viewing is gsview (I've looked at previous threads
on this and all my settings in gsview are the ones recommended), but
creating a postscript file that is ready to be dumped into the LaTeX prosper
package and have a good looking graph for a presentation. Currently, the
graph comes out with lots of "white space" on a portrait oriented page.

My work around has been to open the file in Adobe and to crop the file
(interestingly, when Adobe opens the file, it does not read in the excess
"white space"). This works fine, but it is pretty inefficient.

I find it hard to believe that I can't control these things in R, but I have
been unable to so using the reference manual and this site.

Trying to do it with lattice plots is even worse...

Using curve, line, and plot, I should be able to control these things using
par(). In a lattice environment, I should be able to control these things
using par.settings().

Oh, well, I'll keep plugging away...




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Brian Ripley
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Please do tell us exactly what you are doing via a reproducible example 
(see the footer to every R-help message).

I added paper="special" to postscript() to make this easier: are you using 
it?  From the help page

      The postscript produced for a single R plot is EPS (_Encapsulated
      PostScript_) compatible, and can be included into other documents,
      e.g., into LaTeX, using '\includegraphics{<filename>}'.  For use
      in this way you will probably want to set 'horizontal = FALSE,
      onefile = FALSE, paper = "special"'.  Note that the bounding box
      is for the device region: if you find the white space around the
      plot region excessive, reduce the margins of the figure region via
      'par(mar=)'.

Further, I wrote a pdf() driver to make this easier, so why use 
postscript) to make a PDF presentation?

'Adobe' is a company, not a software package.  Which of its products did 
you mean?
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Nathan Vandergrift wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Perhaps reading the help pages would solve this?  See the quote above.

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
That code was in my original message, here it is again:
par(	bg="yellow",
	lab=c(10,6,7),
	#mai=c(1.25, 1, 0.2, 0.2),
	pin=c(6,4)
)

curve(300-(200*(exp(-.4*x)-1)), 
	from=0, 
	to=9, 
	n=1000, 
	add=F, 
	type= "l",
	lwd=3,
	xlab="Ocassion of Measurement", 
	ylab="y",
)

# doesn't really work, have to edit in Acrobat to fix...

savePlot("M:/mono", type="ps")

            

      
      
      
    

        
What I am using is LaTeX with the prosper package to create a presentation
which I give using Adobe Reader (or Acrobat if it is available).

My issue is that it just seems like too many steps to get a "publication
ready" figure. I'll try what you suggested above, thanks.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Sorry, Acrobat, thought that went without saying, my bad.

Thanks for the help.

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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