Charts to M$Word - what's the best format
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Thomas W Blackwell wrote:
I think maybe the question is, how do you import postscript format into an M$Word document. I am NOT a word user, but I had to do this some years ago and found that it IS possible to import postscript. You do something like "import picture ... (some kind of generic- sounding graphics format)", and it works fine. The postscript behaves very nicely once you get it in. You have to play around quite a bit, and try some very unlikely sounding possibilities to get it in, but it WILL work. There are definitely some shortcomings in the documentation for M$Word (to put it charitably).
It just works in modern versions of Word under Windows, provided you have a postscript printer. Insert | Picture | From file ... and select the file. What does not work well is the preview, if the PS file has one (which R ones do not). Our secretaries were doing this (with S-PLUS figures) a decade ago, and it worked the same way then.
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