[R-SIG-Mac] Wiki or Development for Mac-R.app-graphics-insert-to-Word?

[Byron Ellis]

On 1/29/07, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:

> To get back on the topic: To be honest I don't really see a problem
> here - Word can handle PDF very easily, just drop a PDF file in a
> Word document - it works just fine (to make sure I'm talking about
> Office 2004 here).
>
> The fact that it does so in Microsoft-ish way, that is by converting
> it to a bitmap, is a technicality and given the overall quality of
> Word output it is neither surprising nor will a regular Word user
> notice this at all.

Unfortunately, it happens to convert it to a form of bitmap that is
not visible on PC platforms unless they have Quicktime installed (as I
rediscover every time I need to make a Word document... :-) )


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Byron Ellis (byron.ellis at gmail.com)
"Oook" -- The Librarian