Wiki or Development for Mac-R.app-graphics-insert-to-Word?
Thanks for all those contributions. What I can see as an action point is that quartz.save(..) should be extended to allow a DPI specification when used with type='png', such that you will get hi- res WYSIWYG. The later is crucial to me to be honest, that's why I was discouraging the use of png(..), bitmap(..) and friends. Although essentially the same can be achieved by using quartz.save(.., type='pdf')+Preview, but reducing the Preview step may be worthwhile. Cheers, Simon
On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:
Nice writing -- to the point. I have read the advice about png, and when I use bitmap with res=400, it is great. However, lower resolution (with drag and drop) is jaggy enough to be, IMHO, less- than publication quality and less than good enough for my presentations. This seems like a problem on my computer, or a simple difference of opinion that would be great to be shared (option 1, option 2). Disagreements are healthy, yes? Hank On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Thomas Lumley wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, stefano iacus wrote:
Please stop this dogmatic war against/in_favor_of Word & Co. or I'm forced to close this thread.
A dogma-free summary: 1. Word (and the rest of office) doesn't display PDFs, but can display PNG or JPEG 2. PNG is better for statistical graphics 3. PNG can be produced by drag-and-drop, with Preview from a PDF, or directly from the png() driver. Simon (who should know) recommends drag and drop. I have tended to use the png() driver at higher-than- screen resolution. 4. Under Windows, PNG may require Quicktime in order to be displayed. 5. R does not know how to produce .wmf -- under Windows, R does device-independent graphics calls that are translated to .wmf, .png, .jpeg, or screen images by the operating system as required. This means it would not be easy to make .wmf on Mac. 6. Implementing .wmf output off Windows does not appear to be a high priority for any of the active (core or non-core) developers. If it happens, someone else will have to do it. 7. Many people have strong views on Word that go beyond questions of the use of R on Mac OS X platforms. -thomas
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