Brian Ripley wrote: > As so often happens, the `something wrong' is not reading the help file. > As the NEWS file _also_ says > > o A 'version' argument has been added to pdf() device. If this is > set to "1.4", the device will support transparent colours. > > pdf("alpha.pdf", version="1.4") should work for you: it does for me.
Thanks. I did actually spend quite a bit of time searching around before posting to R-help (always do as a matter of courtesy) but was unlucky in that I grep'ed for 'alpha' and not 'transparent'. Obvious mistake in retrospect. Kevin Wright ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html