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. =============================== Shelby L. Berkowitz Ecological-Community Psychology and Institute for Health Care Studies Michigan State University berkowi4 at msu.edu
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 6:46 AM To: Christoph Lehmann Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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