[R] Mac: importing saved PDF figures into Illustrator CS

[Tilo Blenk]

Rene Bertin wrote:

 > Hello,
 >
 > This is a usage question for others with experience of R under the  
Aqua Mac OS
 > X interface.
 >
 > Basically, I don't succeed in importing PDF files (created with the  
'Save As'
 > menu to Quartz device windows) into Illustrator. Versions up to (and
 > including?) 10 loose paths (lines/polygons) and or fill them in  
black. Version
 > CS (11) on the Mac imports almost correctly, but, "to preserve  
appearance,
 > some text has been outlined". In other words: *all* text in the  
figure is
 > converted to polygons. Somewhat annoying if one plans to edit the  
text, and in
 > general change the appearance. I've asked on both the Apple and Adobe
 > Illustrator forums
 >  
(http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx? 
13 at 114.dQNuchE8byf.1@.3bb6383d/0),
 > but have not yet received any reply. Maybe someone here has found a  
way to
 > tell Illustrator not to outline ('preserve editability', in their  
jargon), or
 > some other workaround?
 >
 > Thanks in advance, René Bertin


No real solution but try the pdf command instead of saving with the menu

pdf(file='~/Desktop/figure.pdf')
curve(x^2)
dev.off()

the resulting pdf file can be read into Illustrator CS without  
outlining the text (Mac OS X 10.3.5 with R 1.9.1) but each character is  
in a separate text frame.

As far as I remember the paths were not lost in Illustrator 10 but just  
were invisible. Selecting everything inside the plot region and setting  
the opacity to 100% (can be done in the transparency window) solved the  
problem.

Tilo