On 27/04/2008 2:05 PM, Ben Bolker wrote: > > Slightly off-topic, but I have been slightly surprised > in recent years at how much trouble I have with the > graphics people at journals -- I have been asked for > TIFF files when I submit PDF, PostScript instead of > PDF, TIFF instead of PNG ... I can do most of these > things by regenerating the figure or using ImageMagick, > ps2pdf,pdf2ps, etc., but it really surprises me that the graphics > departments of major academic publishers don't seem to > be able to translate between standard, > well-behaved vector formats and bitmaps, or between > different kinds of standard bitmaps. > > Maybe they (a) want to save time by making sure > authors do these conversions or (b) don't have their > experts on the front desk ... ?
I think it's a variation on both. In order to save money they make the authors do all possible work; in order to save money they don't bother hiring anyone who knows how to do anything. Then they raise their subscription rates. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
