[R] quartz.save of the FAQ (Mac)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please stop posting Mac-specific questions on R-help.  You have been 
asked not to do so before ....

There _is_ a quartz.save() function in R.app, whose FAQ you are reading.

The RMacOSX-FAQ is not part of R: it is part of the separate Mac-GUI 
project.   You really do need to contact the authors of that project via 
R-sig-mac, and use their version numbers, not R's.

On 22/10/2012 15:17, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the FAQ for Mac http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html
> there is
>
> 7.2 Saving the image
>
> You can can (???) the content of the quartz device window into a PDF file.
>
> This is not explained!
>
> This is a very simple way to export high quality graphics from R into
> other applications on Mac OS X graphics is PDF based (so are almost all
> applications available). However, this process uses R's PDF device and
> not Mac OS X PDF facilities and thus doesn't yeild (???)
>
> an exact copy of the device contents. For Mac-native solution, see (see
> Copying the image into the clipboard
> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#Copying-the-image-into-the-clipboard>)
> and quartz.save command.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 7.3 Copying the image into the clipboard
>
> You can copy the content of the quartz device window in the clipboard to
> make the resulting image available for pasting into other applications.
> The clipboard will contain both a PDF versiond (???) and a bitmap
> version of the quartz device window. Which version will be used depends
> on the pasting applications, most modern application will prefer the PDF
> version which is of higher quality as it supports vector graphics.
>
> In the menu bar of the quartz window > 'Edit' the copy command is
> active, but the is no choice in 'File' for saving the pdf !
>
> Note that there is currently a difference between using the clipboard
> and saving to a PDF file (see Saving the image
> <http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#Saving-the-image>).
> The latter will use R's PDF device which will not yield WYSIWYG results.
> However, using quartz.save ...
>
> There is no function quartz.save in 2-15-1 !
>
> Thanks for correcting the errors in the text and for enlighten me an
> quartz.save.
>
> Christian
>
> PS I wrote the following function for saving the quartz window (thanks
> \author{Ray Brownrigg \email{ray at mcs.vuw.ac.nz}):
>
> pdfc <- function (file = "Rplot.pdf", ...) {
>     current.device <- dev.cur()
>     dev.off(dev.copy(device = pdf, file = file, ...))
>     dev.set(current.device)
>     print(paste(file, "generated."))
>     }
>
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