[R-SIG-Mac] R EPS graphics and PDFs from Word Documents

[Dan Putler]

Hi All,

This is likely to be viewed as being at the margins of acceptable for  
this list, but I've run into an issue that I can't find a way around.  
Specifically, I'm working with a Windows based co-author, who is also  
MS Word based. So far I've found that we get the best graphic quality  
using EPS graphic files created by R. The problem is that when I just  
use the standard way of getting a PDF of the Word document by saving  
the file as a PDF in the main print dialog, the resulting PDF has the  
grayed warning box indicating that the graphic can't be seen on  
screen. If I instead use the option to convert the PDF to PostScript,  
and then convert the resulting PostScript file back to PDF using  
Preview, I get the graphics the way they should be. I can see them on  
screen, and so can anyone else. I can print them on one of my  
PostScript printers, but when folks on Windows go to print these PDFs  
to a PCL printer the output is a string of Ss. I then tried taking  
the PS files and converting them to PDFs using ghostscript (ESP's OS  
X port of gs 7.07 available from Gimp-Print). This causes all the  
graphics to come through properly, but the text is gibberish. I did  
get what appears to be a clean conversion via CERN's document service  
(but in A4, which is a problem in Canada and the US).

Has anyone run into this problem and discovered the work-around that  
seems to be eluding me?

Dan