(Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Folks, > > I see that people have been discussing the win.metafile device > on the list since before 2000. > > Yet I have never seen this on a Linux distribution of R. > > Is this because the device works by making calls (GPL calls of > course!) to a proprietary Windows library? > > In that case I can understand that it would be far from kosher to > implement it on Linux. But I'd like confirmation. > > I must say that being able to produce Windows metafiles on Linux > would help to bridge the gap between Linux and Windows: often one > needs to produce a graphic which will be imported into a Windows > application, but while PNG and the like are quite nice they don't > have the merit of being a vector format, and don't scale well. >
This has been discussed before; search the mailing list archives. There are libraries which sort-of work (used to be poorly, not sure what the exact status is now). No one has wanted to put in the time for finishing a sort-of working result up to now. Note that the same did hold true for PICT format on Macs. Not sure if it still does, though. best, -tony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ Biomedical and Health Informatics University of Washington Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center UW (Tu/Th/F): 206-616-7630 FAX=206-543-3461 | Voicemail is unreliable FHCRC (M/W): 206-667-7025 FAX=206-667-4812 | use Email CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachme...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
