Wow! Thank you for that Ted, a wonderfully comprehensive explanation and now everything makes perfect sense!!
Regarding your last point, I would love to hear other people's experience. I myself, as a complete newbie in both R and LaTeX, am perhaps not the best judge... But there are several graphics packages that can be used directly in LaTeX to do what you propose (the Latex Graphics Companion that I own is about 1000 pages worth of material to help you not be able to make up your mind..). I have found postscript the easiest and most intuitive and you can write postscript graphics directly in Latex using the pstricks package. So yes, you are right, I could just use the data from R directly (and I hope that when I become a dinosaur I will be able to create graphs just as beautiful as yours!). But there are R plots that I would rather not attempt to code myself, in particular mosaic plots, so I prefer to import them from R as eps files and then use psfrag to get the nice LaTeX typesetting for the labels, equations etc. to make it "fit" visually. But then with the sheer volume of options figuring out what is the optimal combination for a particular application, or whether the learning curve is worth it is always going to be an problem.. I guess for all that evolution with nothing ever going extinct, we will each end up a very individual fossil. Maja -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ridiculous-behaviour-printing-to-eps%3A-labels-all-messed-up%21-tp23916638p23932656.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.