[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > postscript() produces files that are not encoded as eps, according to > the standard. Hence, word processors such as OpenOffice and AbiWord do > not recognise the files as eps. See > http://www.postscript.org/FAQs/language/node80.html > > The problem is in the first line of the postscript file: The header is > wrong. It should be: > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 > > whereas postscript() produces: > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > > The following code replicates the problem: > > x <- rnorm(10) > y <- rnorm(10) > postscript("test.eps") > plot(x,y) > dev.off() > > # Now try importing test.eps into your favorite word processor. > > # Now edit test.eps and change the header to the correct header above, > and try importing the file again. Works! (This took me a couple of hours > of hair-pulling to figure out. I sure hope it is a genuine bug. :-) ) > It isn't a bug. It is as it should be, because a plot file with multiple pages cannot be EPS.
Try reading the help page for postscript again, this time ( ;-) ) paying attention to the 'onefile' argument. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
