I find the Windows metafile works quite well if you size the graphic in R before right-clicking and copying as a metafile. Resizing in PowerPoint sometimes produces undesirable font characteristics. Getting the size and aspect ratio the way you want it in R, by dragging the grapic's edges, avoids that.
Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFAX: 503-217-5849 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:43 AM To: Andrew C. Ward Cc: Falcon, Seth; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Pretty onscreen plots? I use PDF and make my presentations in PDF using pdflatex, or even in postscript and Distiller. That way the final document has vector graphics, and bitmapping only occurs at the very last minute, when the projector resolution is known. In theory win.metafile should do the same for powerpoint, but in practice it is not as good. Probably the metafile graphics driver could be improved .... On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Andrew C. Ward wrote: > Seth, > > The R functions png(), jpg() and bmp() will generate files that can be used in > PowerPoint. Previews can be added to postscript files, using Ghostview and > ImageMagik among others. I have done the latter in the past since the > postscript files are of an excellent standard, and because I've wanted both to > display and print a report. Having separate viewing and printing versions of > graphs is not very convenient. > > > Regards, > > Andrew C. Ward > > CAPE Centre > Department of Chemical Engineering > The University of Queensland > Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Quoting "Falcon, Seth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm looking for ideas for creating high-quality plots for use in projected > > presentations (powerpoint, etc) --- ideally high-quality png, jpg, bmp. > > > > The graphics produced using the postscript device look very good. Those > > generated with win.graph(), png are plagued by the jaggy lines. > > > > So far, the only way I can use the postscript plots in my presentations is > > using separate screen capture software. Can someone suggest a better way? > > > > Thanks, > > > > + seth > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
