r under linux: creating high quality bmp's for win users

I have also recently come across a conversion program that works with
ghostscript to convert ps and pdf images into other vector formats,
including .wmf and .emf for M$ software: http://www.pstoedit.net/.  This

might be helpful if your colleagues do not have, as Dr. Ripley
indicated, a postscript printer (if they do have a PS printer then the
regular .eps files produced by ghostscript should work fine, but they
will not be rendered at proper resolution on the screen preview while
they are working on the document).

Note: I have not given this program a thorough workout in comparison to
imagemagick or anything else - just enough to see that it does what it
says it does.

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Shelby L. Berkowitz
Ecological-Community Psychology
and Institute for Health Care Studies
Michigan State University
berkowi4 at msu.edu

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Subject: Re: [R] r under linux: creating high quality bmp's
for win users


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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