I've had some success with output from lattice using Cairo's SVG option, although you're right that it's never easy. Self-citing, the plots in these pubs were

I've had some success with output from lattice using Cairo's SVG option, although you're right that it's never easy. Self-citing, the plots in these pubs were generated as above (JoCN may be behind a paywall): http://www.frontiersin.org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00035/abstract http://www.frontiersin.org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.... http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn_a_00089 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn_a_00089 I'll need to give Stata a look, too.