Well, it seems that having a square page works...If you modify the width or height so that they are not equal, it goes back to the same problem. I guess this is good enough for now.
Miruna ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vorlow Constantinos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [R] plot to postscript orientation-update > Follow-up > > I seem to have manged to get the eps file to work > using: > > postscript("C:/temp/figure.eps", horizontal=F, > paper="special", height=8, width=8, pointsize=12) > > Exactly why I'm not sure since I just copied some old > code that I had used a year or so ago. > --- Vorlow Constantinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> My vanilla code works fine... >> >> See also attached .eps file (seperate email sent >> directly to you) >> >> > r<-rnorm(100) >> > postscript("figure.eps") >> > plot.ts(r) >> > dev.off() >> >> Also this works ok as you have been told already: >> >> > paper="special" in the postscript() call. >> >> If you see my eps file wrongly then your GSVIEW >> setup is wrong. >> >> Choose Orientation "Auto" and under Options (bottom >> half) >> click-select-tick everything except "Ignore DSC". >> >> That should do the trick... >> >> Costas >> >> Miruna Petrescu-Prahova wrote: >> >> > Hi >> >> > >> >> > I am trying to save some plots in a postscript >> file. When I generate >> the >> >> > plots in the main window, they appear correctly - >> their orientation is >> >> >> > landscape (i.e., horizontal). However, when I open >> the .ps file with >> GSview, >> >> > the whole page appears vertically, and the plot >> appears horizontally, >> which >> >> > means that the plot is only partially visible >> (example here >> >> > >> > https://webfiles.uci.edu/mpetresc/postscript.files/default.ps >> > <https://webfiles.uci.edu/mpetresc/postscript.files/default.ps> >> ). I >> searched >> >> > the R-help mailing list archive and found 2 >> suggestions: setting the >> width >> >> > and height and setting horizontal = FALSE. I have >> tried setting the >> width >> >> > and height but it makes no difference. I have also >> tried using >> "horizontal = >> >> > FALSE". This rotates and elongates the plot, but >> it is still displayed >> >> >> > horizontally on a vertical page, and so only >> partially visible >> (example >> >> > here >> > https://webfiles.uci.edu/mpetresc/postscript.files/horiz.false.ps >> > <https://webfiles.uci.edu/mpetresc/postscript.files/horiz.false.ps> >> ). I >> >> >> > am not sure what is wrong. Plots are created with >> "filled.contour". >> >> >> >> I guess this is a misconfiguration of your GSview. >> The plots are fine >> >> for me. Anyway, you might also want to set the >> argument >> >> paper="special" in the postscript() call. >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> >> > Thanks >> >> > Miruna >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > ************************************************ >> >> > Miruna Petrescu-Prahova >> >> > Department of Sociology >> >> > University of California, Irvine >> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > >> >> > ______________________________________________ >> >> > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> >> >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> <http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, >> reproducible code. >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------- >> Costas Vorlow >> Research Economist >> Eurobank EFG >> Division of Research & Forecasting >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------- >> tel: +30-210-3337273 (ext 17273) >> fax: +30-210-3337687 >> >> >> >> >> P Think before you print. >> >> Disclaimer: >> This e-mail is confidential. 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