[R-SIG-Mac] Quartz copy/paste bug?

[Jason Horn]

Yep, me too.  I see the problem when I do a print > save as pdf.   
Random bits of GUI elements, especially directory information, appear  
in the pdf images.  Good news is, I have workaround.  Try hiding all  
other windows (R > Hide Others) or closing all other windows.  Seems  
to help me.  Hope the developers sort this out soon.

- Jason


On Mar 9, 2006, at 3:54 AM, Andrew Beckerman wrote:

> Dear all - I too have experienced this.  While I don't know what
> causes it, I do know that using dev.copy2eps() and then opening that
> file in preview (translates eps to pdf) never causes the trouble.
>
> cheers
> andrew
>
> On 8 Mar 2006, at 19:54, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> Demitri,
>>
>> I have encountered this bug occasionally, but very rarely. The
>> problem is, I didn't figure a way to reproduce it consistently. I was
>> fiddling around with Quartz locking etc., but without reproducible
>> example, it's almost impossible to fix. If you or anyone else could
>> come up with a way to reproduce this behavior consistently, it would
>> be great. Please let me know if you have a way for this to appear
>> more often - I'd appreciate that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Demitri Muna wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have been encountering an intermittent (!) problem when copying
>>> from an R quartz window and pasting into another application. Often
>>> it works without a problem, but sometimes one of two things will
>>> happen:
>>>
>>> - If the quartz window I am copying is active, the full (rounded)
>>> text field that displays the current working directory is
>>> superimposed on the pasted plot. It is in the lower left corner
>>> (not flush against the corner, but in that quadrant). Also, the
>>> text field in flipped both vertically and horizontally.
>>>
>>> - If the quartz window being copied is not active, another image,
>>> again flipped as above, is overlaid onto my plot. This time, the
>>> region of the title bar that contains text is what is there, but
>>> not necessarily from the window I am copying from. For example, the
>>> active window in my case now is device 4 (title is "Quartz (4) -
>>> Inactive") and the text in the object in the pasted image is
>>> "Quartz (3) - Inactive", although device 3 is actually labelled
>>> "Quartz (3) - Active".
>>>
>>> And actually, as I was creating plots to recreate this behaviour, I
>>> was able to get both images superimposed onto the same pasted
>>> image. I am attaching this image since it contains both overlays,
>>> but usually I get one or the other.
>>>
>>> When I have seen this in the past and have needed to "clean up" the
>>> image, I copy and paste into Illustrator. There, it was a simple
>>> matter to remove the text fields by selecting the objects and just
>>> deleting them. This tells me that they are indeed composited onto
>>> my plot.
>>>
>>> Finally, I just closed the original window I created the plot in,
>>> replotted, and the overlaid images went away. A second copy/paste,
>>> and it reappeared.
>>>
>>> Anyway, has this been seen before? Is it a known bug, or is it just
>>> me?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Demitri
>>>
>>> <pastedGraphic.pdf>
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