On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, juli g. pausas wrote:
I have a problem which I'm not sure if it is due to my machine or if I'm doing something wrong.
I'm ploting a little map using plot(val, type="l", asp=1) where val is the object with the latitude/longitude data.
In the screen the figure is perfect, and I can copy to the clipboard and paste it to other places. I can also saved using png() or jpeg(), althoug the quality is much lower. However when I try to save it as metafile (from the plot window or by using win.matafile), the file I obtain do not keep the x/y ratio. I'm interested in this metafile because the quality in much higher then the png, jpeg. Any suggestion?
The quality is even higher in postscript or PDF.
I'm working with R.1.6.1. on Windows.
If somebody is interested, I could send them the files, they are very small (45 KB).
You cannot look at a win.metafile (it is a binary file in a proprietary format); you need an application to display it and there is no reason why that application should preserve the aspect ratio. I just tried pasting into Word, inserting in Word and a clipboard viewer and all preserved the aspect ratio, but in each case it could be lost by resizing.
What exactly did you do with the metafile?
I visualised the win.metafile files with ACDSee ver 3.0 (with resizing options off). Using this application, I see correctly the figure when saved as jpg or png file, but I do not see the metafile correctly. It may be a feature of the ACDSee.
Thnaks
Juli
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