Greetings, Adobe Illustrator works with PDFs, either directly or by converting them to Illustrator format. These vector graphics have "infinite" resolution (can be enlarged 64 fold). I find that graphics passed through MS intermediary programs lose resolution.
Illustrator can also convert single-page PostScript documents (most of the time, I have seen some instrument parts diagrams with a large number of crazy loopy lines). PS documents can also be converted with Adobe Acrobat (full version). Gerard. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald Ingram Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 19:13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries Hi Bert and Jonathan, When I want a quality report - I write it with pdfLaTeX ( TexShop or TeXnicCenter) with postscript generated diagrams and R plots as pdf's - ( so I can use PC / UNIX / OS X inter-changeably with no problems ) The quality and readability of the pdf document is liked but, and it's a big but is ..... When someone else in the team needs to extract quality vector graphics from the report, I have to give it to them in powerpoint or word document , which means running R again on a PC to get WMF's. Not impossible just extra work. ( Is there a universal vector format I could use ? ) However, and this is probably off topic-R, when I use drawings / schematics in native postscript from a Unix box, using them is fine in LaTeX, but they can't be pasted into MS applications without first rasterizing. The other option I tried - Ghostview seems to mess up line angles and fonts in attempting conversion into WMF. ( If anyone knows a way to avoid this, I will be forever grateful ) My problems - are not R but with general UNIX - PC interoperability Thanks for the nsf links - it's good to see Latex accepted, I also think the IEEE takes LaTeX, but for the business world it's Word only. Donald On 7 Apr 2005, at 22:56, Jonathan Baron wrote: > On 04/07/05 22:46, Donald Ingram wrote: > However LaTeX generated pdfs sent out as reports are much disliked. > > Really? I don't have this problem. It may have something to do > with how you make them. With TeTeX, I use either pdflatex or > dvips followed by dvipdfm. The latter is required when I have > figures in eps. (ps2pdf is BAD.) > > I believe that these meet the standards of NSF > (http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov). Unfortunately, > https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/faq.Faq; > jsessionid=a8301381731112910739147?areaIndex=3&faqIndex=12 > now recommends that you just send the dvi file. They have given > up on the possibility of users getting it right, but I think this > is what they do. > > But all my papers on http://papers.ssrn.com are done this way. > > Jon > -- > Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania > Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron On 7 Apr 2005, at 22:56, Berton Gunter wrote: > ?? > R and MS coexist quite nicely. I frequently import R graphics as > .wmf's into > e.g. Word and Powerpoint. So I don't understand your remarks. > > Of course, there's no question about R's superiority for data analysis, > graphs, etc. from any MS product. Incidentally, it is possible to use > R via > DCOM to generate data analyses and plots within Excel -- I don't know > enough > to be able to do this myself, but I know it can be done. > > -- Bert Gunter > Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics > South San Francisco, CA > > "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific > learning > process." - George E. P. Box > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald Ingram >> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:46 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries >> >> Wensui, >> >> I work for 'A' electronics test equipment corporation. >> I have been using R ( since 1.6 ) instead of MATLAB etc. as a general >> language for data analysis and graph generation. >> On they way to R I tried Python/Scipy, Scilab and others - >> but R wins >> in quality and ease of use (it just needs DSP and GPIB/HPIB >> libraries >> to be perfect ). >> >> LaTeX is also my document tool of choice .. >> >> However LaTeX generated pdfs sent out as reports are much disliked. >> >> MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel are the standards, and very importantly >> they offer cut and paste ability across the larger team. >> MS's offerings comes no where near to the quality of LaTex / >> R, but in >> world of shared authorship - it's a one sided battle. >> >> My other PC universe vs Unix/OS X problem is vector / Meta-file >> graphics - essential for quality reports. >> Postscript, PDF and MS products just don't play. The newest >> Office and >> Visio versions seem to be dropping even more of the postscript >> import and export filters ( which never work very well anyway ). >> >> I have never met any other colleagues who use LaTeX or R. >> >> Any one else sharing the same experiences ? >> >> >>>> >> >> Message: 37 >> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:38:55 -0400 >> From: Wensui Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Latex and R are really cool stuff. I am just wondering how they are >> used in industry. But based on my own experience, very rare. Why? >> >> How about the opinion of other listers? 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