Rich, That's scary. Well, I could make a comment about Vista, but that would take us in a whole new direction... ;-)
As far as GS, for an EPS file to a PNG, try something along the lines of: gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r300 -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=file.png file.eps That seems to work for me on OSX. Regards, Marc On Jul 25, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> wrote: > On Vista with Powerpoint 2007, file2.eps crashes powerpoint, > Once file.eps displayed, several times it crashed powerpoint. > > My task is now to see if ghostscript can read a pdf or ps or eps and > convert it to png at res=300. > Do you know the incantation for that? > > > Rich > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Rmh <r...@temple.edu> wrote: > >> i have parallels 8 as the vm. >> i can try a native pc this afternoon. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:42, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> Rich, >>> >>> Any chance that you have access to a native Windows machine or to a >> colleague that does to try the files. >>> >>> I am wondering if there is any chance that there is something about >> running Office in Windows under a VM on OSX that might be involved in some >> manner. >>> >>> BTW, which VM (VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox or ?) are you using? >>> >>> Marc >>> >>> On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>>> The Header and Prolog of both file.eps and file2.eps are the same. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <r...@temple.edu >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> file2.eps opens as a graph in windows PP 2010 and as an icon in PP >> 2013. >>>>> >>>>> RPlot2.pptx <https://www.dropbox.com/s/snm7cb9chrkcrff/RPlot2.pptx> >> opens >>>>> as a graph in both windows PP and in Mac PP. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com >>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Rich, >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't have direct access to Windows and I don't run a VM on my Mac. >>>>>> >>>>>> I e-mailed two PPTX files created on my Mac (Office 2011) to a >> colleague >>>>>> who has Office 2010 on his Windows laptop. The first was the file on >>>>>> DropBox that I linked earlier, with the regular plot. The second is >> this >>>>>> PPTX file: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/snm7cb9chrkcrff/RPlot2.pptx >>>>>> >>>>>> which contains this EPS file created with the barchart() code that you >>>>>> had below: >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ujchnft7q3aa3pw/file2.eps >>>>>> >>>>>> I went over to his office and he could open both PPTX files on his >> laptop >>>>>> and both of the embedded EPS plots were viewable without issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can you open the PPTX file that I created above on your Windows >> instance? >>>>>> >>>>>> Marc >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Rmh <r...@temple.edu> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> office 2011 on mac, 2013 on windows. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> i see the same misbehavior in base and lattice. >>>>>>> my standard simple test is >>>>>>> plot(1:10) >>>>>>> which is base. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> did you try the windows side yet? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Rich >>> >>> >>> >>> <snip of prior content> >> > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.
