Dear users, As an alternative to RSvgDevice::devSVG, I have tried using Cairo and cairoDevice. When opening the svg file from Cairo::CairoSVG() as well as from cairoDevice::Cairo_svg() in Illustrator, I got a warning message (which is damn hard to translate since I don't understand it), something like: "clipping (?) will be lost at reexportation to format 'Tiny'". I then have a huge black square and some huge black numbers that I can remove. But if I do so, the axes labels are gone (I guess these huge numbers are the labels...). After having copied all necessary dll in cairoDevice\libs folder (I hope) to make it to load, I don't know what to do. Any ideas of what the problem could be? Thanks in advance! Ivan > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252 LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] cairoDevice_2.14 -- Ivan CALANDRA PhD Student University of Hamburg Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum Abt. S?ugetiere Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3 D-20146 Hamburg, GERMANY +49(0)40 42838 6231 ivan.calandra at uni-hamburg.de ********** http://www.for771.uni-bonn.de http://webapp5.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/mammals/eng/mitarbeiter.php