Harold,
I usually just specify a width=x instead of a scale. The height is
then automatically scaled to maintain the aspect ratio and you get the
right size for the presentation regardless of the size of the original.
Christian Raschke
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m.CR
Am Jun 28, 2010 um 12:28 schrieb "Doran, Harold" <hdo...@air.org>:
> Two things I think are some of the best developments in statistics
> and production are the lattice package and the beamer class for
> presentation in Latex. One thing I have not become very good at is
> properly sizing my visuals to look good in a presentation.
>
> For instance, I have the following code that creates a nice plot
> (sorry, cannot provide reproducible data).
>
> bwplot(testedgrade~person_measure|gender + ethnicity, pfile, layout=c
> (2,5),
> main = 'Distribution of Person Measure by Grade\n Conditional on
> Gender and Ethnicity (Math)',
> xlab = 'Grade')
>
> Now inside my latex document using the beamer class for presentation
> I have the following
>
> \begin{frame}
> \frametitle{Distribution of Person Parameters by Grade Conditional
> on Gender and Ethnicity}
> \begin{figure}[htb]
> \centering
> \fbox{\includegraphics[scale=.3]{personGenEthn.pdf}}
> \end{figure}
> \end{frame}
>
> I use the scale argument here. I do this totally randomly. I first
> start with scale=.5. Then, I create the document and look at it. If
> it seems to fit, I keep it. If it's too big, I resize it until it
> looks good. There must certainly be a much better way to size these
> for specific use with latex presentations.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Harold
>
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