Since bitmap() used postscript, you may as well use PDF and convert to PNG (and bitmap in R-devel uses this as an option).
I've no idea about the size differences, and we don't have a reproducible example. Again, R-devel offers many more options. On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Stephan Ripke wrote: > Hi, > I am new to this mailing list. Didn`t find the answer in the archives. But I > guess, there are people out there, who know the solution: > In an automatic script, I want to produce simple plots. First I prefer pdf, > because of scalability and standardization. But when I have too many > datapoints (say 300.000) the viewing and printing is very, very slow. So I > decided to take some bitmapped format when passing 5.000 datapoints, because > most of them are in one cloud. As a result, the png is nice and fast to > handle and in Linux it is very easy to convert it to pdf with imagemagick. > So far so good. The problem is, that the font size and the point-size of the > plotpoints and the all of the plot is getting much smaller when using > png-format. Why is this and how can I circumvent this issue? > These are the two devices, I am opening for the two reasons: > > 1) > pdf("name_out.pdf",11,3.5) > 2) > bitmap("name_out.png",height=3.5,width=11) > > all should be the same, isn`t it? > > Thanks in advance, > Stephan > > -- > Dr. med. Stephan Ripke > Stat.2 (Neurology) > Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry > AG Statistical Genetics > Kraepelinstr. 10 > 80804 Munich - Germany > Tel. +49 (0)89 30622-422 or -384 > Fax. +49 (0)89 30622-610 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.