[R] WMF conversion

2010-02-11 Thread Terry Therneau
Could you save the original graphics as a pdf, and include the pdf in Powerpoint? -- begin included message -- Unfortunately, after placed in the PowerPoint and the PowerPoint is converted to PDF via MS Office's built in conversion utility, the resulting image have diagonal

[R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Rupert
Hello R-Help, I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's. I am working on WindowsXP and outputting WMF format images. I then take the WMF format images and insert them in PowerPoint. I take the PowerPoint and convert it to PDF. The WMFs are nothing special. Just the typical x-y plot with

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 10.02.2010 13:16, Jason Rupert wrote: Hello R-Help, I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's. I am working on WindowsXP and outputting WMF format images. I then take the WMF format images and insert them in PowerPoint. I take the PowerPoint and convert it to PDF. The WMFs are nothing

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Rodrigo Aluizio
Or maybe another output image format, such as tiff or png? 2010/2/10 Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de On 10.02.2010 13:16, Jason Rupert wrote: Hello R-Help, I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's. I am working on WindowsXP and outputting WMF format images. I then take the

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Check if your conversion utility lets you specify the resolution of the output and increase it. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Jason Rupert jasonkrup...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello R-Help, I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's.   I am working on WindowsXP and outputting WMF format images.   I

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
It appears that Powerpoint is just getting in the way. Why not output high quality pdf or postscript graphics and use LaTeX Beamer to produce exceptionally high quality slides directly in pdf? Frank Jason Rupert wrote: Hello R-Help, I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's. I am working on

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Thomas Lumley
PNG images have worked well for me we MS Office: it's a bitmap format, so you need to make sure you have enough pixels for the desired resolution at whatever size it ends up. -thomas On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jason Rupert wrote: Hello R-Help, I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's. I am

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Jason Rupert wrote: Hello R-Help, I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's. I am working on WindowsXP and outputting WMF format images. I then take the WMF format images and insert them in PowerPoint. I take the PowerPoint and convert it to PDF. The

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Rupert
-help@r-project.org Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 10:30:38 AM Subject: Re: [R] WMF conversion... On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Jason Rupert wrote: Hello R-Help, I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's.  I am working on WindowsXP and outputting WMF format images.  I then take the WMF format

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Jason Rupert wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I guess I may be using the wrong terminology. I have Office 2007. In PowerPoint 2007, I can navigate to Save As and then choose PDF or XPS. That option is shown in the attached image. When using

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Jason Rupert
.    Thank you again for all your help. Jason   - Original Message From: Marc Schwartz marc_schwa...@me.com To: Jason Rupert jasonkrup...@yahoo.com Cc: R-help@r-project.org Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 12:25:21 PM Subject: Re: [R] WMF conversion... On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Jason

Re: [R] WMF conversion...

2010-02-10 Thread Jim Lemon
On 02/11/2010 04:48 AM, Jason Rupert wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I guess I may be using the wrong terminology. I have Office 2007. In PowerPoint 2007, I can navigate to Save As and then choose PDF or XPS. That option is shown in the attached image. When using that I tried