R help - Aug 2001 - box doesn't surround words in legend in printed output

I have made a plot with a legend and on the screen it looks fine, but
when I save as jpg or pdf, or print, the legend box is too small, it
cuts through the words on the right side.

I put an example here:
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/apdftest.pdf

Is there a work around? 

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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I have made a plot with a legend and on the screen it looks fine, but
> when I save as jpg or pdf, or print, the legend box is too small, it
> cuts through the words on the right side.
>
> I put an example here:
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/apdftest.pdf
>
> Is there a work around?
You need to tell us a lot more, like which OS, exactly how you saved
or printed, etc.

My guess though is that you copied from device to device.  Don't,
use plot directly on the device you wanted.  Copying plots does not
recalculate boxes for changed point sizes, for example.

If you really need to do this you will need to play with the pointsize on
the receiving device.

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Paul Johnson <pauljohn at ukans.edu> writes:
> I have made a plot with a legend and on the screen it looks fine, but
> when I save as jpg or pdf, or print, the legend box is too small, it
> cuts through the words on the right side.
> 
> I put an example here:
> http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/R/apdftest.pdf
> 
> Is there a work around? 
Sort of. The key is that "replaying" graphics is not smart enough when
a graph is resized, and this effectively happens when you copy a graph
between devices. If your screen image has different (formal)
dimensions and pointsize, the stringwidths used for sizing the legend
box are not recalculated. You can either generate your plots directly
to the target device, or adjust your screen image size to fit the
target using the options to x11()/windows().

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