[R] pstoedit

[A.J. Rossini]

On 4/13/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > On 13-Apr-05 Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, BORGULYA [iso-8859-2] Gábor wrote:
> >>
> >>>    Has onyone experience with "pstoedit"
> >>>    (http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit)
> >>> to convert eps graphs generated by R on Linux to Windows
> >>> formats (WMF or EMF)? Does this way work? Is there an other,
> >>> better way?
> >>
> >> You can only do that using pstoedit on Windows.
> >>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Well, I have pstoedit on Linux and with
> >
> >  pstoedit -f emf infile.eps outfile.emf
> >
> > I get what is claimed to be "Enhanced Windows metafile"
> > and which can be imported into Word (though then it is
> > subsequently somewhat resistant to editing operations,
> > such as rotating if it's the wrong way up).
> 
> Maybe, but the URL quoted says
> 
> pstoedit 3.40
> 
> # Windows Meta Files (WMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
> # Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
> 
> so the quoted URL claims otherwise for the current version.

If you follow the link for exact support, you find out that it
supports EMF using a

wemf - Wogls version of EMF 
wemfc - Wogls version of EMF with experimental clip support 
wemfnss - Wogls version of EMF - no subpathes 

which is apparently different than the MS Windows EMF support.  How,
it isn't clear from the documentation.


best,
-tony

"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).

A.J. Rossini
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