[R-SIG-Mac] How to put nice R graphics into powerpoint

[stefano iacus]

You can load the pdf file produce by R in the standard Previewer of Mac  
OS X and export to (almost) whatever format you like including bitmaps


stefano

On Feb 10, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Denis Chabot wrote:

> Thank you Andrew and Thomas,
>
> I have used png produced by Illustrator in much the way you described  
> and the results were not very good. I'll try again because I don't  
> remember if I was given an option to chose the overall size in pixels.  
> If I can, then I'll increase the count. Alternatively, on my iMac at  
> home where R11 is installed, I'll resort to saving directly in png but  
> increasing the pixel count, as suggested by Thomas.
>
> Still, if the information in the pdf produced by R is vector based (it  
> is still perfectly sharp when viewed at 1600% in Acrobat), why can't I  
> find a way to transform such pdf in vector-based pict? That format  
> must be able to handle such plots. After all, I also make plots in  
> KaleidaGraph, and they were very small vector-based pict files. They  
> looked gorgeous in Powerpoint at any zoom setting. I also use Aabel  
> which gives you the option of saving plots as pdf or pict. I chose the  
> later when I need to insert in PowerPoint, and the former for LaTeX.  
> Quality is good either way. Maybe I'll check if there is a "graphics"  
> discussion on Apple's site. If I manage to learn something useful I'll  
> report back.
>
> Denis
> Le Jeudi, 10 févr 2005, à 17:13 Europe/Paris, Andrew Beckerman a écrit  
> :
>
>> Denis - I use the following rather convoluted method with OS 10.3.8,  
>> Illustrator CS, and R2.0.1.
>>
>> command-c copies a figure from the quartz window.  Open this file in  
>> preview and export it as a pdf file (don't know why i do this....).   
>> use illustrator, and the command <place> from the file menu to insert  
>> it in a new document.  Choose <save for microsoft office> from the  
>> file menu in illustrator. this produces a png file that plays nicely,  
>> cross platform, with Word and PP. variations abound, but the goal is  
>> to get something presentable in illustrator and use its save for  
>> office option.....
>>
>> I noticed that preview has a png choice from export, but I've not yet  
>> played around with its options to see if I can get the same quality  
>> that the save for Microsoft Office option produces in Illustrator.
>>
>> Cheers
>> andrew
>>
>>
>> On 10 Feb 2005, at 15:50, Denis Chabot wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I really like the nice vector-based pdf graphics I get in R.
>>>
>>> However, PowerPoint seems to be unable to read them as vector  
>>> graphics and rasterizes them, making them quite "fuzzy" and ugly.  
>>> Granted, the problem lies with Microsoft, but in the mean time what  
>>> is the best workaround? I'd like to do better than producing png  
>>> from within R (especially that only my iMac has X11, my very old  
>>> PowerBook does not).
>>>
>>> I am still able to show vector graphics in pict format in  
>>> PowerPoint. So it should be possible to extract the vectorized plot  
>>> from the pdf and save it as pict, still vectorized.
>>>
>>> However opening the R-produced pdf in Illustrator and saving as pict  
>>> produces a file quite a bit bigger than the original pdf, suggesting  
>>> it was saved as raster pict instead of vector pict. It shows up in  
>>> Powerpoint just as ugly as if it was inserted directly as pdf. This  
>>> is true with Illustrator CS (aka v11 I think) used either under  
>>> 10.2.8 or 10.3.7. It is also true when using GraphicConverter 5 and  
>>> Preview (Jaguar's version, I think it is also true with the Panther  
>>> version) to go from pdf to pict.
>>>
>>> I fired up Canvas (old, version 8) and it did manage to save  
>>> something that was vectorized (i.e. very sharp when viewing at 400%  
>>> in PowerPoint) but the empty circles I used as symbols were not  
>>> filled blacks, the dashes of dashed lines had become "wiggly", text  
>>> orientation was unacceptably changed, etc. etc.
>>>
>>> So does anyone know of a technique to produce vector graphics that  
>>> insert nicely in PowerPoint, either directly from R or by converting  
>>> a pdf produced by R into something else?
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Denis Chabot
>>>
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