Message-ID: <x2vfxh2r2q.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2003-04-14T12:37:01Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Charts to M$Word - what's the best format
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304141253480.11901-100000@gannet.stats>
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> You assert, but you don't explain why and you don't like the results! If a
> `chart' means a vector plot, it is pretty obvious that a vector graphics
> format is best, and that means EMF, ps, PDF or SVG in the world of R
> graphics drivers. AFAIK Word does not support the last two.
With add-ons it might. I did some work with someone who had purchased
the relevant Adobe software, and things came out very nicely with R's
pdf plots. (Is there a "cheapskate" version of that involving
Ghostscript, maybe?)
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