Avoiding over-printing for publication quality figures - r

I am trying to create a full-page figure to publish. The figure looks great on my screen device using Cairo. I've struggled and struggled to get it saved nicely as a file that I can submit. I'm close, as well as I can articulate it, my points and lines just blob together. It's not a resolution issue because as I zoom in, everything looks better and better.
Here is how I make one panel (drawing from two different data frames):
ggplot()+
geom_line(aes(df1$Date, y=df1$sw_10), colour = "black", size=.25) +
geom_point(aes(df2$Date, y=df2$sw_10),fill="white",colour="blue",pch=21, size=1) +
scale_fill_manual(values=c("white"))+
ylim(0.1,0.4)+
theme(panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
axis.line = element_line(),
legend.position='none', legend.title=element_blank(),
legend.text = element_text(size=12),
axis.title.x = element_blank(),
axis.title.y = element_blank(),
axis.text.x = element_blank(),
axis.text.y = element_text(colour="black", size=12))
Then I put them together with grid and output as an eps:
postscript("figure.eps", width=8.5, height = 11)
print(fig)
dev.off()
And here is the result:
figure
or, as the .eps: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zo3rsnv7tuvg1a6/tryit.eps?dl=0
Is there any obvious way to improve this?

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correct plot should look like this
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I am struggling with ggplot to produce the legend of this figure. For now, I am only doing for one map, when it works I'l produce the four maps in the same plot.
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Reading the shapefile and installing a new variable
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axis.text.y = element_blank(),
axis.ticks = element_blank(),
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I just noticed you wanted manual colours for the fill. You can use:
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combined with:
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where scale_fill manual replaces scale_fill_brewer in the other answer.
Just replace the colour and label values with your own. The values that need to go into myscale are shown when you plot your map without any labels. Good luck!
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You also seem to want black borders, this means I deleted all colour= since that specifies the colour of the borders.
I've added a scale_fill_brewer, there are more color palettes available. Within this you can specify your legend title and the appearance of your legend labels. These need to be manually adjusted every time you change your input data, by the way.
I don't know how to remove the legend item for NA, sorry.
This is the total code I came up with:
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aes(long,lat,group=group,fill=median_norm) +
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geom_polygon() + geom_path(color="black") +
labs(title="Equivalent variation") + coord_equal() +
theme(panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_blank(),
axis.line = element_blank(),
axis.text.x = element_blank(),
axis.text.y = element_blank(),
axis.ticks = element_blank(),
axis.title.x = element_blank(),
axis.title.y = element_blank(),
plot.title = element_text(size=12, hjust=0.5),
legend.position = "bottom",
legend.direction = "horizontal",
legend.title = element_text(hjust=0.5))+
guides(colour = guide_legend(title.position = "top"),fill = guide_legend(title.position = "top",nrow=1,byrow=TRUE))
Using some data of my own for the fill:
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