Re: eps editor
On Monday 24,February,2014 12:34 AM, Mark Carroll wrote:
> lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have a network pic, see attached. I manually drag the nodes position,
>> and it was produced by R tkplot, I am not smart to change the label
>> position, any suggestion about eps editor package (epstool is not for
>> this case) and how to beautiful this figure are welcome.
>
> I don't know about a good EPS editor for this kind of thing.
>
> However, if you open the file in any text editor and search for the text
> of the labels, in parentheses, you will find that the two numbers
> beforehand are the X and Y coordinates of the text: if you open the EPS
> file with gv and use "Watch file" you can fiddle the numbers and keep
> re-saving and get the label to be wherever you like. Not elegant, but
> effective.
>
> In general it's a lot easier to change this kind of thing in the
> application generating the PostScript. If you have to do a lot of this,
> it might be worth looking into how to hack tkplot accordingly. For
> producing this kind of diagram, something like LaTeX's TikZ or Basser
> Lout's Diag are good, but they are not an easy-learn point-and-click
> solution, and I assume you are starting out with data that's in R.
Your assumption is right. I do use R. Thanks for your suggestions,
honestly speaking, last night to drag these nodes made me really sick. I
will take a break couple of days and come back to this figure again.
>
> -- Mark
>
>
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