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legend not appearing in Word document

8 messages · Duncan Murdoch, Schalk Heunis, Tim Clark +3 more

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Tim Clark
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I need help with using graphics in Word 2007 that will later be converted into a 
pdf document.? I have tried several formats and found that?I get the best 
quality of graphics using .wmf, .eps format, but when I convert it to .pdf I get 
a bunch of lines across the figures.? I also tried .tiff and .png but they give 
me much lower quality.? The best quality that converts to pdf appears to be 
.eps.? However, I have now come across a problem with my figure legends.? For 
some reason the legend is visible in R but not in Word.? Does anyone know why a 
legend in .eps format won't work in Word, or how I can get it to work?? I have 
made an example of the legend below that you should be able to save as .eps and 
paste into Word as an example.? I would appreciate any help you can offer on 
getting the legend in .eps format to work, or on other formats that may be 
better for Word and pdf files.

Thanks,

Tim

????? library(plotrix)
????? Satelite.Palette <- 
colorRampPalette(c("blue3","cyan","aquamarine","yellow","orange","red"))
????? mycol<-Satelite.Palette(ceiling(5000+1))#Max relative angle multiplied by 
100 to give larger range.? Max is 3.1415, rounded up to 3.15 plus one.
????? col.labels<-round((seq(0,5000,length.out=5)/1000),1)
????? plot(0, 0, type="n", axes=F, xlab="", ylab="")?? #New plot for legend
????? color.legend(0,0,1,1,col.labels, mycol, align="rb", gradient="y")?? #Adds 
legend




?Tim Clark
Marine Ecologist
National Park of American Samoa
Pago Pago, AS 96799
Duncan Murdoch
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On 12/12/2010 8:59 AM, Tim Clark wrote:
I don't have Word 2007, but when I execute that code I get a legend 
either on screen or in an EPS file.  So this looks like a Word bug; 
you'll need to talk to Microsoft.

Duncan Murdoch
Gabor Grothendieck
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Tim Clark <mudiver1200 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Try installing the free bullzip printer driver and then try "printing"
it to pdf.
3 days later
Robert Baer
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For what it is worth, I just tried importing the .eps legend into Word 2010 
and it seemed to work fine suggesting that MS may have updated their .eps 
import driver with that version of Office?

Rob
Tim_Clark at nps.gov
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Duncan,

I am starting to think the problem is the number of colors being used in
the legend when using Word 2007 and the eps file format.  I have played
around with the number of colors in mycol and found that it works for under
3000 colors (length mycol<3000), but I only get an empty (colorless) box
when using greater than 3000 colors.  I am not sure why 3000 would be a
cut-off, but by reducing my color pallet I have been able to get the legend
to open in Word 2007.  Word 2010 may allow for more colors, or treat colors
in a different way.  I haven't been able to test this out on different
machines, so it still could be specific to my machine for some reason.  The
eps format also converts well into pdf format.  I still haven't found a way
to get the wmf format to work correctly when converting it to pdf, so am
simply re-saving all of my figures in eps.

Aloha,

Tim



Tim Clark
Marine Ecologist
National Park of American Samoa
Pago Pago, AS  96799
Tim_Clark at nps.gov


                                                                           
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For what it is worth, I just tried importing the .eps legend into Word 2010

and it seemed to work fine suggesting that MS may have updated their .eps
import driver with that version of Office?

Rob