Charts to M$Word - what's the best format
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:00:58 +0100 (BST)
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Thomas W Blackwell wrote:
I think maybe the question is, how do you import postscript format into an M$Word document. I am NOT a word user, but I had to do this some years ago and found that it IS possible to import postscript. You do something like "import picture ... (some kind of generic- sounding graphics format)", and it works fine. The postscript behaves very nicely once you get it in. You have to play around quite a bit, and try some very unlikely sounding possibilities to get it in, but it WILL work. There are definitely some shortcomings in the documentation for M$Word (to put it charitably).
It just works in modern versions of Word under Windows, provided you have a postscript printer. Insert | Picture | From file ... and select the file. What does not work well is the preview, if the PS file has one (which R ones do not). Our secretaries were doing this (with S-PLUS figures) a decade ago, and it worked the same way then. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
I have never understood why more people don't use this approach. Even without a postscript printer it is an excellent approach; you can install Adobe Acrobat Distiller and print to non-postscript printers (same with Ghostscript).
Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat