[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Anything in .gif files will not print well - plan on it, and cheer for exceptions. these are usually 72 dpi resolution, which looks good only on your semi-friendly computer screen. Good screens show the difference, too.
David Duffy wrote:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:But Excel CAN produce simple scatter plots or bar charts. It is just that
the defaults are so horrible. With a lot of tweaking you can make themMy problem is cost. I want to get everyone in my department to have the
facility to produce reasonable charts that have a common style. I do allPerhaps it is would be easier for people to quickly dump a CSV file into
the Win32 version of R or Gnuplot. R really does do nice graphics,
which can go back into Word/Powerpoint etc. as JPEGs (with minimal
compression).
What about GIF/PNG? For graphics with few colors and sharp edges these
forms - run-length-encoded and then compressed using a reeated-strings
algorithm - are usually more compact, and are loss-free. However, as I
recall, they do not resize as well as JPEGS.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">By which I take you mean, 'vectorized' or EPS structures. That makes a good, rescalable image. I wonder about portability of WMF's, though. MS PowerPoint has problems right and left; sorry 'bout that. Especially on a Mac. PowerPoint can handle EPS, just barely, on any platform.With small numbers of data, in Windows, the WMF (Windows Metafile) is
ideal - it is portable between all major applications, and as it stores
the picture as curves, it is infinitely scalable.
If you are really concerned with publication level output, why not check with your friendly publisher/printer? They won't necessarily sympathize with economic concerns, but if your archival journal publisher specifies a format, it darn well better be a valid one! Also, I once dealt with a book publisher who used an old version of Word for the editors, and liked the word portion material in flat text form.
Jay
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