perfect.  since I really want to start with pdf or ps, these work on both
Mac and Windows

## rmh for pdf
gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=png16m
-sOutputFile=testplot.png testplot.pdf

## rmh for ps
gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r300 -dPSCrop -sDEVICE=png16m
-sOutputFile=Living.png Living.ps

## Marc for eps
gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r300 -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=png16m
-sOutputFile=file.png file.eps

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@me.com>wrote:

> Rich,
>
> That's scary. Well, I could make a comment about Vista, but that would
> take us in a whole new direction... ;-)
>
> As far as GS, for an EPS file to a PNG, try something along the lines of:
>
>   gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -r300 -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=png16m
> -sOutputFile=file.png file.eps
>
> That seems to work for me on OSX.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
>
> On Jul 25, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Vista with Powerpoint 2007, file2.eps crashes powerpoint,
> > Once file.eps displayed, several times it crashed powerpoint.
> >
> > My task is now to see if ghostscript can read a pdf or ps or eps and
> > convert it to png at res=300.
> > Do you know the incantation for that?
> >
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Rmh <rmh@temple.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> i have parallels 8 as the  vm.
> >> i can try a native pc this afternoon.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:42, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@me.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Rich,
> >>>
> >>> Any chance that you have access to a native Windows machine or to a
> >> colleague that does to try the files.
> >>>
> >>> I am wondering if there is any chance that there is something about
> >> running Office in Windows under a VM on OSX that might be involved in
> some
> >> manner.
> >>>
> >>> BTW, which VM (VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox or ?) are you using?
> >>>
> >>> Marc
> >>>
> >>> On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The Header and Prolog of both file.eps and file2.eps are the same.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh@temple.edu
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> file2.eps opens as a graph in windows PP 2010 and as an icon in PP
> >> 2013.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> RPlot2.pptx <https://www.dropbox.com/s/snm7cb9chrkcrff/RPlot2.pptx>
> >> opens
> >>>>> as a graph in both windows PP and in Mac PP.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@me.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Rich,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I don't have direct access to Windows and I don't run a VM on my
> Mac.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I e-mailed two PPTX files created on my Mac (Office 2011) to a
> >> colleague
> >>>>>> who has Office 2010 on his Windows laptop. The first was the file on
> >>>>>> DropBox that I linked earlier, with the regular plot. The second is
> >> this
> >>>>>> PPTX file:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/snm7cb9chrkcrff/RPlot2.pptx
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> which contains this EPS file created with the barchart() code that
> you
> >>>>>> had below:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ujchnft7q3aa3pw/file2.eps
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I went over to his office and he could open both PPTX files on his
> >> laptop
> >>>>>> and both of the embedded EPS plots were viewable without issue.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Can you open the PPTX file that I created above on your Windows
> >> instance?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Marc
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Rmh <rmh@temple.edu> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> office 2011 on mac, 2013 on windows.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> i see the same misbehavior in base and lattice.
> >>>>>>> my standard simple test is
> >>>>>>> plot(1:10)
> >>>>>>> which is base.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> did you try the windows side yet?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Rich
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <snip of prior content>
> >>
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