Dear Dirk and Hank, On Aug 4, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
> This is a big issue for me, causing many days of angst. I finally > stumbled on the following solution. I create a device save an image > with postscript(). I then open it in Adobe Acrobat, select the area I > want, enlarge to at least 400%, then copy, then paste into PowerPoint > or Word. Alternatively, you can simply save a graphics image through > the gui and it saves it as pdf. Then go through the steps of selecting, > enlarging and copying in Acrobat. I am guessing real graphics programs > would work as well (Photoshop or Illustrator), but I don't have those. > > Hank Stevens > > > On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Weismann_D wrote: > >> Ist there a possibility on MacOSX to import Graphics into MSOffice >> Applications and resize them there without decreased quality? When I >> import >> via copy&paste I get low quality bitmaps and via import pictures (pdf) >> it is >> all the same. In the Windows versions of R there is the convienient >> way to >> use metafile format which can easily be resized in ppt and word. What >> is the >> equivalent way on MacOSX? >> Thanks, Dirk. You could try creating a PNG with bitmap() using a high resolution, e.g., bitmap("test.png", type = "png256", res = 1200) plot(1:10, rnorm(10)) dev.off() Preview can read the resulting PNG file just fine and the Windows version of Office can insert PNGs, displays them well, and allows resizing. (I don't have an OS X version of Office so can't test that the OS X version would handle the PNGs equally well but I would have to assume it does.) bitmap() requires Ghostscript which I have installed on my system in /usr/local/bin. I'm not sure whether Ghostscript came with OS X or if I installed it myself but it's freely available. Hope this helps, Stephen PS I am using the out-of-the-box R.app: platform powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 arch powerpc os darwin7.9.0 system powerpc, darwin7.9.0 status Patched major 2 minor 1.0 year 2005 month 05 day 12 and Ghostscript 8.13 (2003-12-31) ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html