On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Donald Ingram wrote:
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:12:47 +0100 From: Donald Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ? )
I think that SVG is the answer, but it is still a moving target. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ Otherwise, it's PDF.
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 )
The TexLive distribution (search www.ctan.org) has dvipdfm, as well as epstopdf -- another conversion tool.
Itay
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