"Graham Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marc > >>> I have seen the discussions on producing high quality output on the R >>> forum, but this seemed to be an OOo question as the copy and paste is >>> fine with Word and Pages, its just with OOo that its horrible. >> >> True, but the R lists have folks who have done this before (myself >> included) on various platforms and have a breadth of experience with the >> nuances. Putting R plots into other applications is a commonly posted >> scenario. > > Yes, I agree, but in asking the question, the R bit was really > incidental, to why are pasted bit maps horrible in OOo but fine in > Pages and Word. I almost didn't mention R , but then thought it might > be useful. Interestingly, no one has actually answered my real > question
<snip> My guess is that without a comparable installation (same R, Word, Pages and OOo versions), the root cause may be difficult to identify. There are also questions of details. Are you using the R Quartz device or the X11 device? Do you have the latest 3.0 native OSX version of OOo or are you using the previous X11 version? Each of these potential interactions may be part of the issue. My understanding is that the R Quartz device will put both PDF (the native OSX format) and bitmap versions of the plot into the clipboard. There may very well be the variations in quality that you are observing due to the way in which the bitmap version of the plot is copied from the clipboard into each app. I would not think (though I could be wrong), that Office on the Mac supports a PDF paste, but if so, that could be the underlying issue. If so, that would explain the differences, presuming that Pages also supports a PDF paste. Thus, in Office and Pages, you are getting a vector based graphic pasted, whereas in OOo, you are getting the bitmap. You might want to save the plot directly to a PNG file and then import that into the three applications and see if there are any differences when compared to the C&P approach. In doing a quick search, I found the following in the R Wiki: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:using-platform:macosx-graphics That seems to support at least in part, my hypothesis above and you might find the information there to be helpful. If I get a chance, I may try to install R and OOo (3.0) on my wife's iMac to see if I can replicate the problems. She has Pages, so I can try that as well. We are an MS free household with me on Linux and others on OSX, so we don't have Office to try. If I should come up with anything significant, I'll post back. Regards, Marc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
