[R] insert eps into microsft word

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Wed Sep 10 21:29:43 CEST 2003


"Rafael A. Irizarry" <ririzarr at jhsph.edu> writes:

> for word documents submitted to picky journals i usually use seomthing
> like this:
> 
> bitmap("plot_1.png",width=6,height=6,res=600,pointsize=12,family="Times")
> 
> on my computer this resutls in quality  just as good (to mu eye) as with
> postscript. you can also use adobe acrobat to convert postsctipt to
> something else.

Word seems generally unhappy with PostScript, not just the files R
makes. One option that I have seen come out rather nicely is to have
the plots as PDF and use Adobe Distiller as the backend so that the
whole thing becomes a PDF file.

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