"Michael J. Manning" <mj.manning at niwa.cri.nz> writes:
> Hi all
>
> I have some plots that I wish to write out to postcript files. I open
> the postscript device as suggested
[postscript(file="foo.eps",...)], run
> my plotting commands, and close the device as suggested [dev.off()].
> However, when I open the eps files in a postscript viewer such as the
> gimp, the resolution of the postscript images is *really* bad, very
> "blocky" and "chunky", without the crisp lines and text
that I
> expected. I seem to remember that specifying the resolution of the
> image to be written to the eps file somewhere gets around this.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Am running R 1.3.0 on a Mandrake 8.0 system.
Try another viewer, e.g. gv. I don't think R is involved in this.
Postscript and EPS should be smoothly scalable, but the viewer might
create blockiness. My version of the gimp sets 100dpi when loading
postscript files, e.g.
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