R devel - Apr 2001 - using bitmap to make a multi-page pdf file results in (PR#909)

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 Setzer.Woodrow@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> When I execute the following code:
>
> bitmap("test.pdf",type="pdfwrite")
> plot(1:10,1:10,main="ONE")
> plot(1:10,1:10,main="TWO")
> dev.off()
>
> the resulting file test.pdf contains four pages: graph ONE, graph TWO,
> graph ONE, graph TWO.  I can recreate the problem with R version 1.2.1 and
> 1.2.2.  I am using Aladdin ghostscript version 6.50.  The temporary file
> Rbit... has the correct number of graphs in it.  Furthermore, if I execute
> from the command line the command as constructed in 'bitmap()',
using the
> Rbit... file as input, I get a pdf file with the correct number of graphs
> in it.

It's  Windows-specific and easy to fix: replace

    cmd <- paste(gsexe, " -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q -sDEVICE=", type,
                 " -r", res,
                 " -g", ceiling(res*width), "x",
ceiling(res*height),
                 " -sOutputFile=", file, " ", tmp,
sep="")

by

    cmd <- paste(gsexe, " -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q -sDEVICE=", type,
                 " -r", res,
                 " -g", ceiling(res*width), "x",
ceiling(res*height),
                 " -sOutputFile=", file, sep="")

Fixed for 1.2.3

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