R help - Jun 2009 - Postcript font size

Hello

I'm doing a number of plots and in all of them I'm specifying the same
font size. However, comparing one plot to the other, they have fonts of
different sizes, so it appears some scaling is being done.

I tried using both postcript(pointsize = ...) and par(ps = ...), but the
results were the same.

Is there a way to specify a font size that is consistent among calls to
plot()?

Thanks,
Andre

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 19:09 -0300, Andre Nathan wrote:
> Is there a way to specify a font size that is consistent among calls to
> plot()?
To put it correctly: is there a way to specify a font size that is
consistent among calls to postcript()?

All the fonts in the same file have the same size, but comparing files,
even when par(ps = ...) or postcript(pointsize = ...) are specified the
same way, the fonts have different sizes.

Best regards,
Andre

On 11-Jun-09 22:16:22, Andre Nathan wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 19:09 -0300, Andre Nathan wrote:
>> Is there a way to specify a font size that is consistent among calls
>> to plot()?
> 
> To put it correctly: is there a way to specify a font size that is
> consistent among calls to postcript()?
> 
> All the fonts in the same file have the same size, but comparing files,
> even when par(ps = ...) or postcript(pointsize = ...) are specified
> the same way, the fonts have different sizes.
> 
> Best regards,
> Andre
How are you comparing?
A: Looking into the PostScript code in the files, and identifying
   the font-sizes where they are set in the code?
B: Comparing apparent font sizes when looking at two plots on screen?
C: Comparing apparent font sizes when looking at plots as printed
   on paper (and, in this case, have the plots been included in an
   enacapsulated document as EPS graphics)?

Ted.

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