Message-ID: <e6d0ee3fba30cef4310b2ad38e29ca7d@oulu.fi>
Date: 2006-03-24T19:11:52Z
From: Jari Oksanen
Subject: "transparent" background for PDF
In-Reply-To: <D94BEF51-66A2-4392-A91C-8AC25C0BB132@plessthan.com>
On 24 Mar 2006, at 20:30, Dennis Fisher wrote:
> Colleagues
>
> Running R2.2.1 on either a Linux (RedHat 9) or Mac (10.4) platform.
>
> I created a PDF document using pdf("FILENAME.pdf", bg="transparent",
> version="1.4"). I then imported the graphic into PowerPoint -
> background was set to a non-transparent color. I was hoping that the
> inserted graphic would be transparent - instead, it had a white
> background.
According to my experience, this is a "feature" of PowerPoint which
seems to be incapable to display transparent background in PDF. This
also concerns transparent background PDF's from other programmes than
R. This experience is from Linux & Mac (pdf) and PP in Mac (never tried
that with PowerPoint on Linux...).
cheers, jari oksanen
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Jari Oksanen, Oulu, Finland