Wiki for Graphics tips for MacOS X
On 2/1/07, Ben Bolker <bolker at zoo.ufl.edu> wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck <at> gmail.com> writes:
To get the best results you need to transfer it using vector graphics rather than bitmapped graphics: http://www.stc-saz.org/resources/0203_graphics.pdf There are a number of variations described here (see entire thread). Its for UNIX and Windows but I think it would likely work similarly on Mac and Windows: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/32297.html
yes, but: the whole point of this discussion was that there _is_ no vector format that anyone knows of that (1) can be reliably created on MacOS using R/open source tools and (2) can be reliably imported into MS Word (with working preview etc.). The thread you reference assumes that one has a Windows machine handy (with or without R installed) for creating WMF graphics. Hence the advice to create a high-resolution PNG, which seems to work well enough even if it is not optimal.
AFAIK there do exist tools for the Mac for fig graphics and that was one of the several solutions proposed there.