[R] Graphical output format

[Dieter Menne]

Stats Wolf <stats.wolf <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Saving a plot with pdf gives a very nice result:
> 
> pdf("myplot.pdf")
> par(font=1,family='serif')
> plot(pressure)
> dev.off()
> 
> Doing the very same with other formats (png, jpeg, tiff) gives far
> worse results. Is there anything to do to make a plot in some other
> format than pdf look like the pdf? Hardly any journal accepts pdf
> files for figures, and most do accept png and jpeg -- so no matter
> what I think about this, I must follow this rule. What can I do, then?

Either create the graphs with very large width and height (usually 
corresponding to 600dpi); scaling may be tricky if you use this way,
check the pointsize parameter.

Or, my preferred way: create pdf, and use Ghostview to make the 
conversion. There is  nice utility called GhostFriend that helps
in getting the horrible parameters right and processing whole
directories.

Dieter