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2009 Nov 19
2
PLoS, Arial, R & linux
Greetings All. According to the PLoS (Public Library of Science) Guidelines for Figure preparation, if a figure is submitted as EPS rather than TIFF then "Figure text must be in Arial font" -- see: [1] http://www.plosntds.org/static/figureGuidelines.action#text and also other sections in that web-page [2] http://www.plosntds.org/static/figureGuidelines.action Now, Arial font is not (as a rule) available in Linux, and EPS diagrams prepared using R graphics will call for Helvetica (by default). Of course the Helvetica family is very similar t...
2008 May 23
2
Preparing high quality figures with tiff as end result
Hi all, I'm currently preparing some figures that will be submitted to PloS One. In their guidelines they state that they will only accept figures in tiff or eps format, with the warning that eps figures will be converted to tiff format ( see http://www.plosone.org/static/figureGuidelines.action ). Because of this conversion, I figured I'd generate tiff-format figures from the beginning. However, a number of issues cropped up: 1) using library(Cairo) CairoTIFF("test.tif") I get " Sorry, this Cairo was compiled without tiff support.". I tried finding out ho...