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...in a Windows metafile, it appears highly pixelated rather than as a smooth vector. The other filled circles (pch = 19 and 20) are vector circles, filled with pixels. Results are the same whether I use windows() and save or copy as a metafile, or win.metafile() Also, some of the other symbols are misshapen, e.g. the diamond pch = 23 is not symmetrical. There is no problem using postscript(), although Microsoft Word does not do a good job of importing postscript graphics (text comes out too large). Is there a way to make the plotting symbols in metafiles appear as vectors? Thanks, Dan Bebber Using:...

...erates bitmaps. (This follows a thread on the ggplot2 mailing list.) I mostly use R on Linux, although I sometimes use it in Mac and Windows as well. On Linux, I've found that plotting shapes 15-18 via cairo results in bad-looking output. The points are not antialiased, and they are jagged and misshapen. Plots generated in Windows also aren't antialiased, but at least the vector shapes seem to be aligned to pixel boundaries so that the raster images look consistent. You can see this in the scatterplots I've posted here: http://stdout.org/~winston/X/r-antialias/pch.html Also on that page...