[R] Problems of metafile plots when converting word to pdf file

[Bill Pikounis]

Jim,
I have seen this outcome as well with graphs from time to time and
agree with Jean-Christophe that the bug seems to creep in at the
Windows / Office level.  You do not mention your version of Word, but
I have seen this with Word 2000 and Word 2007 (doc and docx) software
and formats, for example.

One other workaround is to *Print* the whole document to PDF, rather
than "Save As".  This would require an (Adobe) PDF driver installed on
your system.

Or as Jean-Christophe suggests, use another output format for pasting
or inserting the picture into Word. I have not had much luck with
graphs in PDF format for insertion, since I have never seen PDF as an
accepted graph format. PNG or BMP (e.g. copy file as bitmap from an R
graphics window) and others work well if you can live without
vector-based flexibility to resize the graph within the document.

Hope that helps.

Bill

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:27, Jean-Christophe BOUËTTÉ
<jcbouette at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> did you try saving your graph directly as pdf with R, using ?pdf
> What you're describing seems more a Word problem.
> JC
> 2011/9/13 Jin Minming <jminming at yahoo.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I copy metafile boxplot from R to Word. Then save as Pdf file. But I found there are some unexpected black lines in some plots within this PDF file.
>>
>> Please give me some advice how to get rid of these black lines in PDF files.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Jim
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