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

[Denis Chabot]

I would love to get Keynote, but it is not compatible with my old 
powerbook. As my employer had put a freeze on computer purchases 
because of budget constraints (and because buying a Mac where I work is 
a big struggle, as I'm seen as a thorn in the (chose your soft spot) of 
the IS guys who'd love to have a 100% Windows universe, but that's 
another story) it is not an option (yet).

Actually in recent versions of PowerPoint wmf usually display properly 
and very sharp. In a presentation I gave yesterday the only sharp 
graphs came from wmf maps I produced with Surfer on a Windows machine, 
what a shame!

But I can certify that PowerPoint always allowed vector pict format.

For now I'll have to resort on running some R programs a second time 
and save higher resolutions png than what Preview and Illustrator give 
me when they translate pdf into png.

Denis

Le 10 févr. 2005, à 18:56, Simon Urbanek a écrit :

> Hi Denis,
>
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:50 AM, Denis Chabot wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> AFAICS there is no way to include vector graphics into PP other than 
> WMF (and I didn't even test that on a Mac).
>
> OT: Get Apple Keynote - it's far better, pastes such PDFs in vector 
> form flawlessly and it even supports copy/paste of Latex formulas in 
> vector form (via LaTeX Equation Editor)! There are plenty output 
> formats if you really need to present it on a PC, too...
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>