Dennis Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colleagues > > I frequently insert PDF graphics created with R into Word (Office > 2004 for Mac) documents. The documents are created on either a > Linux machine (RedHat 9) or a Mac (Tiger). I am using R 2.2.0. > > These pdf graphics often lose a great deal of resolution after > insertion into Word compared to their high quality when printed as > PDF documents. I recently learned that converting the PDF documents > to TIFF format (this is easily accomplished in Apple's Preview > application) yields documents that can be inserted into Word with no > loss of resolution. > > Is there any means to create TIFF documents (or some other format > [excluding EPS] that will not lose resolution when inserted into > Word) directly in R (i.e., so as to avoid the conversion outside of R)?
Well, the bitmap() driver might do it (install ghostscript first), but I must say that this is absurd: EPS and PDF are resolution-independent formats, TIFF and friends are fixed-size bitmaps. If Word decides to mangle a perfectly good graphics file by converting it to a low-resolution bitmap, I'd say that the problem is with Word more than with R... On Windows, investing in Adobe Acrobat Writer seems to be a good way to coerce Word to generate rather good looking PDF output, with PDF graphics from R. Wouldn't know about Mac but might guess that it is similar. > Dennis > > Dennis Fisher MD > P < (The "P Less Than" Company) > Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) > Fax: 1-415-564-2220 > www.PLessThan.com > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
