Jonas Eberle --
> thank you for your answer! Actually, I used to make large size pdfs with a > tiny font size in these cases. It is then even possible to print this > single-page-pdf on multiple pages in Acrobat Reader. The problem was that > my current tree is really huge - with about 23000 tips. This took me to the > limits of this approach, since pdf size is limited to 200 inch by Adobe and > there also seems to be a lower limit for font size in pdfs (at least during > export form R?). > > I didn't knew that Drawtree is able to split the tree over multiple pages. > I guess this is an option in the command line version? I will check that > out. In the mean time I found a way to do the job in R (see my post before) > that seems to produce reasonable results. > > PHYLIP programs do not enter settings on the command-line. They have a menu. The Drawgram and Drawtree programs have a choice that gives a submenu in which multiple pages can be selected. This submenu is not available in the GUI (Java front end) version of those programs, but is available in the character-mode menu that appears if the program is run from the command line. It is the selection made by typing the character "#". J.F. ---- Joe Felsenstein j...@gs.washington.edu Department of Genome Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065 USA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/