[R] WMF conversion...

[Thomas Lumley]

PNG images have worked well for me we MS Office: it's a bitmap format, so you need to make sure you have enough pixels for the desired resolution at whatever size it ends up.

      -thomas

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jason Rupert wrote:

> Hello R-Help,
>
> I've got a bit of an issue with WMF's.   I am working on WindowsXP and outputting WMF format images.   I then take the WMF format images and insert them in PowerPoint.   I take the PowerPoint and convert it to PDF.
>
> The WMFs are nothing special.  Just the typical x-y plot with a gray dotted grid added and a few matlines.  The WMFs, when produced look great!   They show all the necessary detail.
>
> Unfortunately, after placed in the PowerPoint and the PowerPoint is converted to PDF via MS Office's built in conversion utility, the resulting image have diagonal streaks across them from the y-axis down to the x-axis.  The rest of the document is perfect, but the WMF images now have streaks across them.  It looks like it may be caused, somehow, by the dotted grid.
>
> I am locked into the workflow where I must place images in a PowerPoint and then convert it to PDF, so is there a different image format I should use or is there and intermediate step I need to use so that the streaks do not appear?
>
> Thanks for any feedback and insight.
>
> Jason
>
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle