Your problem may also be that you can't get the figure to print from Word? To get Word to print anything other than a blank box for the eps, you will need to install and use a postscript printer driver for your printer.
cheers Brett Brett Melbourne, Postdoctoral Fellow Biological Invasions IGERT www.cpb.ucdavis.edu/bioinv Center for Population Biology, Storer Hall University of California Davis CA 95616 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gavin Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karim Elsawy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [R] insert eps into microsft word > Depending on your version of Word that simply is *not* true! > > I can't test this here (I now have Word XP/2002) but my colleagues have > Word 97 on their college-supplied service (yes, really!) and despite not > being able to see a preview, they can quite happily import eps files I > have produced during the course of my work. Admitedly a blank box in > word is not the most user-friendly thing to work with, but this old > version of Word will happily deal with the postscript produced. > > Having used Word 2000 and XP during the course of writing a PhD thesis > that used R-generated plots extensively, I know first hand how easy it > is to deal with eps files from R in Word. > > My setup involves using Ghostscript/GSView on Windows XP to view the eps > plots I produce in R and then import them into Word XP (the eps filter > now seems to add a preview for you), but if you have an earlier word > version, GSView can easily add a preview for you. > > Also, onefile = TRUE does *not* produce eps files. > > I quote from ?postscript : > > onefile: logical: if true (the default) allow multiple figures in one > file. If false, generate a file name containing the page > number and use an EPSF header and no `DocumentMedia' comment. > > It is a bit confusing, but onefile = TRUE is for producing multi-page > postscript documents, i.e. put all the plots to follow into a single > postscript doc with (possibly) more than a single page. > > I know a number of people have suggested using a windows metafile. > Whilst this might offer a solution to your problem, unless you are using > a very-out-of-date version of Word I cannot see the advantages of using > metafiles over postscript. > > HTH > > Gavin > > Karim Elsawy wrote: > > > it seems that word can not read encapsupalted postscripts generated by R > > I used this command > > > > postscript("output.eps",horizontal=F,onefile=TRUE) > > since onefile=TRUE produces an encapsualted postscript > > > > actually what I'm trying to do is to insert the postsript file into a > > word document > > since other formats like jpeg and bmp do not reproduce the same quality > > like postscript > > formats > > > > > > any suggestions are very much appreciated > > Karim > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > > > -- > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 > ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 > ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ > 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ > London. WC1H 0AP. > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help