[R] R-graphics: insert PS in MS Word

[David Middleton]

>Then the file can be transferred to the Windows computer, and after 
>adding bounding boxes and a preview with Ghostview (the "PS to EPS" 
>and "Add EPS Preview" commands are well documented in the online 
>help) the file should be ready for inserting in MS-Word.

The Ghostview documentation also makes the point that the "initclip"
operator should not be used in EPS files, or files you convert to EPS
using the "PS to EPS" command.  It's worth noting that the postscript
produced by R _does_ use the initclip operator, despite the fact that
the postscript() help page suggests R postscript is EPS compatible.
(I'm currently on R 0.64.1 win32).

That said, I've had very few problems using the postscript produced by
R in either MS word or latex documents.  R postscript does include
a bounding box, so it is often unnecessary to run it through ghostview,
especially if you don't need a preview image added.

As I recall the one.page=T argument to the Splus postscript device caused
fully compliant EPS to be produced, which could potentially be a useful
feature
for R.

David Middleton
dajm at deeq.demon.co.uk


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