Re: [R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint

2013-06-03 Thread Steve Simon, P.Mean Consulting
As I understand it, there are multiple competing standards for the Windows Metafile (WMF) format. See --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile I like WMF because it is vector based and thus scales nicely. But eventually I gave up on it because the WMF format was unpredictable when exporte

Re: [R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint

2013-06-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 02/06/2013 1:15 PM, Erling Johan Frøysa wrote: Hello, I am using R to create graphics, especially to plot time series charts. These charts are then copied as metafiles (for best quality) to a PowerPoint presentation and then saved to PDF (via the "Save As" dialog"). Attached is two pictures.

Re: [R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint

2013-06-03 Thread Marc Schwartz
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Re: [R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint

2013-06-03 Thread Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT)
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller > Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 13:58 > To: Erling Johan Frøysa; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint > > I have not seen this

Re: [R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint

2013-06-03 Thread Jeff Newmiller
I have not seen this particular problem, but I have seen other problems and I tend to export bitmaps or pdf files as a result. Note that a reproducible example is usually required to to obtain help on this list, and posting in HTML format is bad because it mutilates example code, so fix your em

Re: [R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin Wright
I've had something similar and have had better luck using the PrimoPDF software to "Print" a PowerPoint to a PDF device instead of saving from PowerPoint to PDF. Best, Kevin On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Erling Johan Frøysa < erling.fro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am using R to cre

[R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint

2013-06-02 Thread Erling Johan Frøysa
Hello, I am using R to create graphics, especially to plot time series charts. These charts are then copied as metafiles (for best quality) to a PowerPoint presentation and then saved to PDF (via the "Save As" dialog"). Attached is two pictures. The first picture shows how my chart looks like in