slides in linux R - OFF TOPIC REPLY
On 05-Apr-03 Jonathan Baron wrote:
On 04/05/03 09:01, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
In S-Plus Windows you can transform graphics to Powerpoint very easily, in R Windows you can use enhanced metafiles (.emf) and Powerpoint almost as easy. Is there a simular way with R in Linux to transform to the presentation program in StarOffice or OpenOffice or are you stuck with the pdf device?
This isn't really an answer. But for an ordinary talk - without movies or audio - I have made pdf slides with Latex, including eps output from R, like this: [...]
Tottering dinosaurs like myself will perhaps appreciate the following, but it is also worth attention from more recently evolved individuals. As well as LaTeX, don't forget good old Unix troff -- or, rather, its re-incarnation as GNU groff. As well as troff's long-established capability to import EPS files (the output format of postscript() in R), groff is now capable of colours and, using the \X'ps: exec <code>' passthrough to the PS postprocessor, can incorprate "PDFmark" tags. The resulting PS file can be converted to PDF using any good converter (Acrobat Distiller works beautifully, of course, and recent versions of ghostscript -- 'ps2pdf' command -- also implement PDFmarks well; see also Frank Siegert's "PStill" program). PDFmarks in effect convert a PDF document into a HyperText document when viewed using Acrobat Reader (recent versions of "xpdf" also work well), with embedded links/tags enabling you to jump from place to place in a document, open external PDF files (and return), visit Web URLs, flash up "comment" boxes, and all sort of other things including spawning other programs (e.g. to show a "movie" clip). For recent groff see any recent Linux distribution, or visit http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html For PStill visit http://www.wizards.de/~frank/pstill.html For various information about PDFmarks (and PDF generally) see http://www.pdflib.com/pdfmark/index.html http://www.pdflib.com/ For PDFmark reference material see http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfmark.pdf http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfspec.pdf HTML output from groff is also available (though PDFmarks are silent in HTML -- use other tags defined for the output format 'html'). Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 06-Apr-03 Time: 13:04:07 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------