D'oh! Simon.
On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 12:36 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > postscript() produces files that are not encoded as eps, according to > > the standard. Hence, word processors such as OpenOffice and AbiWord do > > not recognise the files as eps. See > > http://www.postscript.org/FAQs/language/node80.html > > > > The problem is in the first line of the postscript file: The header is > > wrong. It should be: > > > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 > > > > whereas postscript() produces: > > > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > > > > The following code replicates the problem: > > > > x <- rnorm(10) > > y <- rnorm(10) > > postscript("test.eps") > > plot(x,y) > > dev.off() > > > > # Now try importing test.eps into your favorite word processor. > > > > # Now edit test.eps and change the header to the correct header above, > > and try importing the file again. Works! (This took me a couple of hours > > of hair-pulling to figure out. I sure hope it is a genuine bug. :-) ) > > > It isn't a bug. It is as it should be, because a plot file with multiple > pages cannot be EPS. > > Try reading the help page for postscript again, this time ( ;-) ) paying > attention to the 'onefile' argument. > -- Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat. Lecturer and Consultant Statistician Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences The University of Queensland St. Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia Room 320 Goddard Building (8) T: +61 7 3365 2506 email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au Policies: 1. I will NOT analyse your data for you. 2. Your deadline is your problem. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
