Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503221144320.22404@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-03-22T11:46:11Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: r under linux: creating high quality bmp's for win users
In-Reply-To: <423FFA8D.3000907@gmx.ch>
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> I produce graphics with R under linux, but my collaborators often use windows
> and cannot import eps pics e.g. in msword
Are they sure? One can import eps images into Word, but you need to print
them on a postscript printer.
> what is the standard way to get e.g. bmp's with the same quality as eps.
> going the way: creating eps, convert eps2bmp using 'convert' doesn't yield
> good enough bmp's
The bitmap() device might do better, although both are really using gs.
I would use png() and convert to bmp with ImageMagick's convert or
otherwise.
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