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DEV2bitmap: jpeg with res=400 not enough for CORELDRAW poster A0

5 messages · Uwe Ligges, Peter Dalgaard, Jan Verbesselt +1 more

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Dear all,

When saving a plot with the dev2bitmap command:

    name    <- c("test.jpeg")
    dev2bitmap(name,type="jpeg",height=8,width=13,res=400)

Everything seems to be ok... After importing this picture in CORELDRAW (for
a poster A0) format the resolution and colors are not optimal.

How can I save pictures (colors/resolution) optimally for import into
CorelDraw for an A0 poster?

Pdf?/tiff?/bmp?/

Thanks,
Jan


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ir. Jan Verbesselt 
Research Associate 
Lab of Geomatics Engineering K.U. Leuven
Vital Decosterstraat 102. B-3000 Leuven Belgium 
Tel: +32-16-329750   Fax: +32-16-329760
http://gloveg.kuleuven.ac.be/
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Jan Verbesselt wrote:

            
What about PostScript? It's perfectly resizable and CorelDraw (at least 
the outdated version 10) can deal with it.

Uwe Ligges
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Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
But not PDF? Notice that this is not really bitmapped either, even
though handled by dev2bitmap. 

Upping the res= is another option, but may be memory intensive. Notice
that A0 is 4 times as big as A4 (~8x12 inches) so you'd need up to 4
times the resolution - but I guess that your plot is not taking up the
whole area...
5 days later
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Thanks for the input!

Finally I used:

dev2bitmap(name,type="pdfwrite",height=8,width=14,res=1200)

==> resolution and colors were fine on the A0 poster! 
(and files are really small).

Regards,
Jan

____________________________________________________________________
ir. Jan Verbesselt 
Research Associate 
Lab of Geomatics Engineering K.U. Leuven
Vital Decosterstraat 102. B-3000 Leuven Belgium 
Tel: +32-16-329750   Fax: +32-16-329760
http://gloveg.kuleuven.ac.be/

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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk] 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 12:38 PM
To: Uwe Ligges
Cc: Jan.Verbesselt at biw.kuleuven.be; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] DEV2bitmap: jpeg with res=400 not enough for CORELDRAW
poster A0

Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
But not PDF? Notice that this is not really bitmapped either, even
though handled by dev2bitmap. 

Upping the res= is another option, but may be memory intensive. Notice
that A0 is 4 times as big as A4 (~8x12 inches) so you'd need up to 4
times the resolution - but I guess that your plot is not taking up the
whole area...
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On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jan Verbesselt wrote:

            
Why not use R's native PDF driver if PDF is acceptable?  This is a 
convoluted way to produce PDF by converting EPS.