[R] success with R-unix postscript plots into Mac?

[Matthew R. Nelson]

Tony,

I have had very good success with ImageMagick which can convert nearly
any image format into nearly any other image format.  It has a GPL-like
lisence and is available for nearly any platform at

http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html

The source code and binaries are available here or at your favorite Linux
download sites.  

>From the command line, converting from postscript to jpg is as easy as
# convert plot.ps plot.jpg

Resolution can be improved by arguements like
# convert -density 288 -geometry 25% plot.ps plot.gif

which essentially says to put more information into a smaller region.

Additionally, there are all kinds of wrappers for the ImageMagick
libraries, including Perl, Python, and C/C++.

Regards,

Matt

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, you wrote:
>Has anyone had success getting R-unix postscript plots into powerpoint
>for the Mac?  Mac powerpoint doesn't seem to like postscript, and
>conversions to tiff, jpeg, and gif, using the netpbm converters, have
>produced less than stellar results (i.e. bitmaps with unaliases
>pixels, sigh...).
>
>Thoughts?  The next one I had was to use GIMP (this is a linux system) 
>to clean it up, and it worked, but it seems like overkill, so I'm
>looking for a simpler solution.
>
>best,
>-tony
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