Polygons in Windows metafile
On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:05 AM, Jim Lemon wrote:
On 01/27/2010 10:58 AM, Steve Taylor wrote:
Hi all,
I'm producing some pie charts (Yes I know!) and plotting them into
a Windows metafile. This is for insertion into a Word document.
The circles come out rather jagged when you zoom in on them, the
cause of which I have perhaps narrowed down to the way polygon()
works in the metafile device. The polygon coordinates seem to be
quantised to the pixels, which is odd for a vector graphics format.
Try this to see what I mean:
win.metafile('test.emf')
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
for(i in 1:4) pie(sample(5,4,repl=TRUE))
dev.off()
Is there a way to get a better quality EMF file of this output?
PDF output looks great, but Word doesn't seem to understand
inserting a PDF graphics file. Word also did something strange
with EPS output.
Hi Steve, I don't have Word here to test your code, but OpenOffice is free and it does a _much_ better job on things like this. Just a suggestion.
OO.o does not import pdf or eps files for me. I generally need to convert to tiff format to get importation into OO.o files. Am I missing an obvious (or obscure) method? I'm generally using a Mac so would not be using win.metafile().
David. > Jim > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org 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.