I almost always do a bit of tweaking of my R graphics (output as postscript files) using Adobe Illustrator. The latest version has the option of saving the file "For Microsoft Office..." under the File menu. The resulting *.png file comes up clean in PowerPoint or in Word.
Cheers, George On 7/22/04 7:25 AM, "Rob Knell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > The default option for saving graphics from R (1.9.1) on my Mac is as a > pdf file. If I open the file in Acrobat reader it looks really good and > crisp, and is obviously saved as vector graphics, since I can zoom in > as much as I like and it continues to look really nice. If I import it > into MS Word (from office 2000), or Textedit, however, it imports it as > a bitmap and unless I save it as a pretty big image and then shrink it > in size by about three times after import it looks blurry and > pixellated. The save it as a really big picture and shrink it option is > bearable, but hardly elegant. > > I'm trying to persuade some other people in my department that we > should move to using R as a standard analysis package, and this is > currently one strike against it - it's difficult to export > decent-looking high-res graphics. If I want to persuade people to use > R, I need to be able to give them an easy way to do this. There are > some solutions like importing the text and then the graphics into > acrobat, or installing ghostscript and trying it with the graphics as > postscript, but obviously people will respond to this with 'why should > I waste time and or money doing this when I can just cut and paste out > of Excel/Statistica/Minitab'. I realise that this is arguably more of a > problem with Word or Textedit, but does anyone know of a good easy > solution to this that I can use as part of my program to evangelise my > colleagues? > > Thanks for any help > > Rob Knell > > ================================================================== George W. Gilchrist Email #1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Biology, Box 8795 Email #2: [EMAIL PROTECTED] College of William & Mary Phone: (757) 221-7751 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 Fax: (757) 221-6483 http://gwgilc.people.wm.edu/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
