On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Marc Schwartz wrote: > See comments inline: > > Chris Walker wrote: >> I am using R 2.4.1 with Windows XP. > > First, you are using a version of R that is a year and a half and 6 > releases out of date. Version 2.7.0 was just released this past week. > You can download it from your nearest CRAN mirror. > >> I use the plot command in a fairly simple script and I use the right mouse >> click on the plot and save as a postscript file. I used the resultant file >> in a paper which was submitted electronically. However, I get the following >> response from the journal: >> >> Your manuscript has been unsubmitted because you failed to meet the >> submission guidelines as indicated below: >> >> -Your figures must be submitted in TIFF or EPS format according to the >> following minimum resolutions: >> >> 1200 dpi for black and white line art (simple bar graphs, charts, etc.) >> 300dpi for halftones (black and white photographs) 600dpi for combination >> halftones (Photographs that also contain line art such as labeling or thin >> lines) >> >> Does anyone know how to produce the correct settings for the journal (i.e. >> 1200 dpi)? > > Their comments about resolution apply to TIFF files and not EPS files, > which are resolution independent. > > It has been several years since I last used the Windows version of R, > but if the 'File Save As' menu for the plot indicates Postscript and not > Encapsulated Postscript, that is your problem.
Whatever the menu says, it does produce Encapsulated PostScript (which is a special case of PostScript) R's postscript is always encapsulated, but EPS also requires a single frame and a suitable header. If you save from the menu it is %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 ... > You can use dev.copy2eps(...) after you have plotted the graphic to the > screen device, or better, plot directly to an EPS file by surrounding > your plot code with: > > postscript("FileName.eps", width = X, height = Y, paper = "special", > horizontal = FALSE, onepage = FALSE) > > YOUR PLOT CODE HERE > > dev.off() > > > See ?dev.copy and/or ?postscript for more help. > > And...be sure to install the latest version of R. :-) Not least because it can produce a 1200dpi TIFF figure via the tiff() device. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz -- 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.