I've been in a similar situation (not recently enough to remember every detail, unfortunately) and found that converting the PDF files to PNG files worked smoothly.
Steve Buyske On Nov 3, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Dan Putler wrote: > Hi All, > > This is likely to be viewed as being at the margins of acceptable for > this list, but I've run into an issue that I can't find a way around. > Specifically, I'm working with a Windows based co-author, who is also > MS Word based. So far I've found that we get the best graphic quality > using EPS graphic files created by R. The problem is that when I just > use the standard way of getting a PDF of the Word document by saving > the file as a PDF in the main print dialog, the resulting PDF has the > grayed warning box indicating that the graphic can't be seen on > screen. If I instead use the option to convert the PDF to PostScript, > and then convert the resulting PostScript file back to PDF using > Preview, I get the graphics the way they should be. I can see them on > screen, and so can anyone else. I can print them on one of my > PostScript printers, but when folks on Windows go to print these PDFs > to a PCL printer the output is a string of Ss. I then tried taking > the PS files and converting them to PDFs using ghostscript (ESP's OS > X port of gs 7.07 available from Gimp-Print). This causes all the > graphics to come through properly, but the text is gibberish. I did > get what appears to be a clean conversion via CERN's document service > (but in A4, which is a problem in Canada and the US). > > Has anyone run into this problem and discovered the work-around that > seems to be eluding me? > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
