EPS file generation (PR#1797)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

What did you do to make an EPS file?  This would appear to be user error,
not a bug, as R does create the right header when producing EPS files.


Following ?postscript (or using dev.copy2eps) gives

postscript(file="test.eps", width = 4.0, height = 3.0,
           horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE)
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

gannet% head test.eps
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica
...

And if you omit onefile=FALSE, you get

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica
...

and *never* %!


On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 k_r_patterson@cec.eu.int wrote:

> Full_Name: Kenneth Patterson
> Version: 1.3.1
> OS: Linux Mandrake 8.1
> Submission from: (NULL) (158.166.10.72)
>
>
>
> Hello
>
> I had a problem in reading in an EPS file from R into Star Office 5.2 - although
> it
> works for several other word processors. The online support at Sun helped me
> with the following reply, indicating that the export of EPS from R was faulty.
>
> You might like to update this, at least it would be helpful for Linux/Star
> Office users.
>
> Regards
>
> KP
>
> Reply from SUN SUPPORT ->
>
> Hi Kenneth,
> Loading problems with EPS files can appear if in the file format header the file
> format information is missing (so-called "Magic"). This can be caused by the
> program which exported the EPS file. In this case, please inform the
> manufacturer of the program which causes the faulty EPS export. In the TGIF
> created EPS files, the first line reads:
>
> %!
>
> StarOffice expects however: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
>
> If you manually modify the line, StarOffice can read this file without a
> problem.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Sanal
>
>
>
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