Ist there a possibility on MacOSX to import Graphics into MSOffice Applications and resize them there without decreased quality? When I import via copy&paste I get low quality bitmaps and via import pictures (pdf) it is all the same. In the Windows versions of R there is the convienient way to use metafile format which can easily be resized in ppt and word. What is the equivalent way on MacOSX? Thanks, Dirk.
Graphics on MacOSX
3 messages · Weismann_D, Martin Henry H. Stevens, Stephen D. Weigand
This is a big issue for me, causing many days of angst. I finally stumbled on the following solution. I create a device save an image with postscript(). I then open it in Adobe Acrobat, select the area I want, enlarge to at least 400%, then copy, then paste into PowerPoint or Word. Alternatively, you can simply save a graphics image through the gui and it saves it as pdf. Then go through the steps of selecting, enlarging and copying in Acrobat. I am guessing real graphics programs would work as well (Photoshop or Illustrator), but I don't have those. Hank Stevens
On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Weismann_D wrote:
Ist there a possibility on MacOSX to import Graphics into MSOffice Applications and resize them there without decreased quality? When I import via copy&paste I get low quality bitmaps and via import pictures (pdf) it is all the same. In the Windows versions of R there is the convienient way to use metafile format which can easily be resized in ppt and word. What is the equivalent way on MacOSX? Thanks, Dirk.
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Dear Dirk and Hank,
On Aug 4, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
This is a big issue for me, causing many days of angst. I finally stumbled on the following solution. I create a device save an image with postscript(). I then open it in Adobe Acrobat, select the area I want, enlarge to at least 400%, then copy, then paste into PowerPoint or Word. Alternatively, you can simply save a graphics image through the gui and it saves it as pdf. Then go through the steps of selecting, enlarging and copying in Acrobat. I am guessing real graphics programs would work as well (Photoshop or Illustrator), but I don't have those. Hank Stevens On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Weismann_D wrote:
Ist there a possibility on MacOSX to import Graphics into MSOffice Applications and resize them there without decreased quality? When I import via copy&paste I get low quality bitmaps and via import pictures (pdf) it is all the same. In the Windows versions of R there is the convienient way to use metafile format which can easily be resized in ppt and word. What is the equivalent way on MacOSX? Thanks, Dirk.
You could try creating a PNG with bitmap() using a high resolution,
e.g.,
bitmap("test.png", type = "png256", res = 1200)
plot(1:10, rnorm(10))
dev.off()
Preview can read the resulting PNG file just fine and the Windows
version of Office can insert PNGs, displays them well, and allows
resizing. (I don't have an OS X version of Office so can't test that
the OS X version would handle the PNGs equally well but I would have to
assume it does.)
bitmap() requires Ghostscript which I have installed on my system in
/usr/local/bin. I'm not sure whether Ghostscript came with OS X or if I
installed it myself but it's freely available.
Hope this helps,
Stephen
PS I am using the out-of-the-box R.app:
platform powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
arch powerpc
os darwin7.9.0
system powerpc, darwin7.9.0
status Patched
major 2
minor 1.0
year 2005
month 05
day 12
and Ghostscript 8.13 (2003-12-31)