On Vista with Powerpoint 2007, file2.eps crashes powerpoint,
Once file.eps displayed, several times it crashed powerpoint.

My task is now to see if ghostscript can read a pdf or ps or eps and
convert it to png at res=300.
Do you know the incantation for that?


Rich


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Rmh <r...@temple.edu> wrote:

> i have parallels 8 as the  vm.
> i can try a native pc this afternoon.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:42, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote:
>
> > Rich,
> >
> > Any chance that you have access to a native Windows machine or to a
> colleague that does to try the files.
> >
> > I am wondering if there is any chance that there is something about
> running Office in Windows under a VM on OSX that might be involved in some
> manner.
> >
> > BTW, which VM (VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox or ?) are you using?
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The Header and Prolog of both file.eps and file2.eps are the same.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> file2.eps opens as a graph in windows PP 2010 and as an icon in PP
> 2013.
> >>>
> >>> RPlot2.pptx <https://www.dropbox.com/s/snm7cb9chrkcrff/RPlot2.pptx>
> opens
> >>> as a graph in both windows PP and in Mac PP.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com
> >wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Rich,
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't have direct access to Windows and I don't run a VM on my Mac.
> >>>>
> >>>> I e-mailed two PPTX files created on my Mac (Office 2011) to a
> colleague
> >>>> who has Office 2010 on his Windows laptop. The first was the file on
> >>>> DropBox that I linked earlier, with the regular plot. The second is
> this
> >>>> PPTX file:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/snm7cb9chrkcrff/RPlot2.pptx
> >>>>
> >>>> which contains this EPS file created with the barchart() code that you
> >>>> had below:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ujchnft7q3aa3pw/file2.eps
> >>>>
> >>>> I went over to his office and he could open both PPTX files on his
> laptop
> >>>> and both of the embedded EPS plots were viewable without issue.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you open the PPTX file that I created above on your Windows
> instance?
> >>>>
> >>>> Marc
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Rmh <r...@temple.edu> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> office 2011 on mac, 2013 on windows.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i see the same misbehavior in base and lattice.
> >>>>> my standard simple test is
> >>>>> plot(1:10)
> >>>>> which is base.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> did you try the windows side yet?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rich
> >
> >
> >
> > <snip of prior content>
>

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