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2 messages · Dennis Fisher, Peter Dalgaard
Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com> writes:
Colleagues I frequently insert PDF graphics created with R into Word (Office 2004 for Mac) documents. The documents are created on either a Linux machine (RedHat 9) or a Mac (Tiger). I am using R 2.2.0. These pdf graphics often lose a great deal of resolution after insertion into Word compared to their high quality when printed as PDF documents. I recently learned that converting the PDF documents to TIFF format (this is easily accomplished in Apple's Preview application) yields documents that can be inserted into Word with no loss of resolution. Is there any means to create TIFF documents (or some other format [excluding EPS] that will not lose resolution when inserted into Word) directly in R (i.e., so as to avoid the conversion outside of R)?
Well, the bitmap() driver might do it (install ghostscript first), but I must say that this is absurd: EPS and PDF are resolution-independent formats, TIFF and friends are fixed-size bitmaps. If Word decides to mangle a perfectly good graphics file by converting it to a low-resolution bitmap, I'd say that the problem is with Word more than with R... On Windows, investing in Adobe Acrobat Writer seems to be a good way to coerce Word to generate rather good looking PDF output, with PDF graphics from R. Wouldn't know about Mac but might guess that it is similar.
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