Hi Duncan, Hi Michael, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch <at> stats.uwo.ca> writes:
> On 8/13/2007 1:33 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote: > > - You saw ugly artifacts in a graph you produced. That's a bug. The > question is, what caused it? > - You rightly asked on R-help. It might have been a bug in the way > you were doing things, or a bug in R, or a bug in the way you were > viewing the image. > - It was demonstrated that this only appears in Preview, not in > Acrobat Reader, so it's probably a bug there. > > It's only at the last point that I object to what you did: your > question quoted below makes it look as though you think Apple's time is > more valuable than ours. I remind you that you paid for Preview, and > you didn't pay for R. Apple has a stronger obligation to help you than > any of us do. My experience with them (and with most other commercial > software vendors) is that you'll get much worse help from them than from > us --- but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Perhaps when anyone > searching for "Mac OSX Preview" on Google shows up a page full of > unhandled bug reports they'll actually do something. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > On Aug 13, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > >> On 8/13/2007 11:43 AM, Michael Kubovy wrote: > >>> But is it a bug? Can a program anti-alias text and line drawings > >>> and not bitmaps? > ... [deletions] ... > >>>> An alternative to dropping Preview is to report the bug in it to > >>>> Apple. Apple has an online bug reporting web page somewhere; I > >>>> haven't found them as helpful as R-help, but your mileage may vary. > >>>> > >>>> Duncan Murdoch I'm entering this late. I just wanted to point out that there are earlier threads on this issue on the R-Sig-Mac list that might be useful to follow through. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2005-March/001650.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2006-February/002678.html Simon Urbanek suggested one patch on the later thread. My solution, at the time, was to capture the image from the acrobat rendition. best, ken -- Ken Knoblauch Inserm U846 Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau Département Neurosciences Intégratives 18 avenue du Doyen Lépine 69500 Bron France tel: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 77 fax: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 61 portable: +33 (0)6 84 10 64 10 http://www.lyon.inserm.fr/846/english.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.