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Especially in this case since I am only experienced in M$ Windows and Linux so I am unable to guess whats wrong with OSX. does not even the postscript device work? With postscript I get the best quality for printing. e.g.: postscript("test.eps", width = 8.0, height = 6.0, horizontal = FALSE, onefile =FALSE, paper = "special") curve(x^2) dev.off() Conan Phelan schrieb: > Thanks for the feedback and link Stefan, > > Perhaps if I provide a little more background. (Pls > forgive both my ignorance and my long windedness.) > > I am on Mac OSX and am only able to load the Quartz > graphic device (is that normal?). From quartz, I've > only been able to generate pdf files, which do not > match the quartz display to my satisfaction. I've been > attempting to find a way to generate other output > files for comparison. (I've managed to generate a bmp > file that looked awful, after acquiring Gostscript). > > Anyway, I figure R must able to produce high quality > graphic outputs, so I'm trying different things. To > this end I was hoping that the GDD package would allow > me to load the x11 module but it seems to be a no-go > (is there some system requirement I'm missing?). > > Conan > > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.