your eps file appears as an icon in powerpoint 2010 and 2013 on windows 7 in my VM. the same file opens as a proper graph on powerpoint 2011 in Mac.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com>wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Seems to work for me using Powerpoint in MS Office 2011 for Mac. > > I used the following code: > > postscript(file = "file.eps", height = 4, width = 4, > horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper = "special") > > plot(rnorm(20)) > > dev.off() > > > > Then I used the insert picture from file function in Powerpoint. It > created the PNG preview during import and I can see that on the slide in > the application without issue. > > I put the EPS file and the PPTX file up on DropBox if you want to look at > them: > > EPS File: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8avze4yv51blso/file.eps > > PPTX file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pm7oejm0g6rc0a5/RPlot.pptx > > > Regards, > > Marc > > > > On Jul 24, 2013, at 10:49 AM, "Richard M. Heiberger" <r...@temple.edu> > wrote: > > Thanks Marc, > > the extra arguments to postscript still don't produce something that > PowerPoint will accept. > With your call, PP still displayed only the icon. PP did not generate its > own png file. > > Since my immediate goal is the projection screen for a PowerPoint > presentation, I will go > directly to the png file. For the proceedings and for paper I will > continue to use the pdf file. > > Rich > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com>wrote: > >> Rich, >> >> You are missing some options in the call to postscript() below. It needs >> to be: >> >> postscript(file = "file.eps", width = x, height = y, >> horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper = "special") >> >> The first line needs to have values for 'x' and 'y' for the width and >> height of the image, as they default to 0. >> >> The second line of 3 options are all critical to producing an EPS file, >> as opposed to a PS file. This is described in the 4th paragraph of the >> Details section of ?postscript. >> >> If you import that file into any of the MS Office products (typically >> also for OpenOffce, LibreOffice, etc.), a PNG preview image will be created >> during import. It is the PNG bitmapped image that you can see when >> displaying the EPS file in the document, hence the degradation in quality. >> Some years ago, all you would see is a rectangular box with an "X" across >> it, as a placeholder for the imported image. >> >> Only if you then print the Office file using a Postscript printer driver, >> will you see the actual vector based EPS image. The target of that printing >> operation could be a printer for hard copy, a PS or a PDF file. MS Office >> does not support the rendering of the EPS image directly. >> >> If you are operating on Windows, as opposed to Linux or OSX, typically >> EMF/WMF files are the easiest way to go in terms of sticking R plots into >> an Office file, as they are also vector based images, but are effectively >> Windows only. >> >> Regards, >> >> Marc Schwartz >> >> >> On Jul 24, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> >> wrote: >> >> > png("png300.png", res=300, width=2880, height=1440) >> > >> > gives good behavior. Thank you. This will become my standard for >> export >> > to powerpoint. >> > >> > postscript(file='file.eps', onefile=FALSE) >> > produces eps files that powerpoint rejects, even though ghostview is >> > satisfied. >> > >> > Rich >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Patrick Connolly < >> > p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, 23-Jul-2013 at 10:23PM -0400, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: >> >> >> >> |> I have colleagues who use powerpoint. When I send my colleagues pdf >> >> files >> >> |> or ps files, powerpoint >> >> |> rejects them. Powerpoint does accept some eps files. >> >> |> >> >> >> >> [...] >> >> >> >> |> Does anyone know a workaround that will get vector graphics from R >> into >> >> |> powerpoint? >> >> |> win.metafile is not acceptable. The resolution of emf files from R >> is >> >> |> worse than png files. >> >> >> >> Maybe worse than png files at the default resolution which is 72 dpi. >> >> Change that to something like 300 and nobody will see a jagged edge in >> >> a PowerPoint slide. >> >> >> >> HTH >> >> >> >> >> >> |> >> >> |> Thanks >> >> |> Rich >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
