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

[Simon Urbanek]

Thanks for all those contributions. What I can see as an action point  
is that quartz.save(..) should be extended to allow a DPI  
specification when used with type='png', such that you will get hi- 
res WYSIWYG. The later is crucial to me to be honest, that's why I  
was discouraging the use of png(..), bitmap(..) and friends. Although  
essentially the same can be achieved by using quartz.save(..,  
type='pdf')+Preview, but reducing the Preview step may be worthwhile.

Cheers,
Simon


On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:

> Nice writing -- to the point. I have read the advice about png, and
> when I use bitmap with res=400, it is great. However, lower
> resolution (with drag and drop) is jaggy enough to be, IMHO, less-
> than publication quality and less than good enough for my
> presentations. This seems like a problem on my computer, or a simple
> difference of opinion that would be great to be shared (option 1,
> option 2). Disagreements are healthy, yes?
> Hank
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Thomas Lumley wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, stefano iacus wrote:
>>
>>> Please stop this dogmatic war against/in_favor_of Word & Co. or I'm
>>> forced to close this thread.
>>
>> A dogma-free summary:
>>
>> 1. Word (and the rest of office)  doesn't display PDFs, but can
>> display
>> PNG or JPEG
>>
>> 2. PNG is better for statistical graphics
>>
>> 3. PNG can be produced by drag-and-drop, with Preview from a PDF, or
>> directly from the png() driver. Simon (who should know) recommends
>> drag
>> and drop.  I have tended to use the png() driver at higher-than- 
>> screen
>> resolution.
>>
>> 4. Under Windows, PNG may require Quicktime in order to be displayed.
>>
>> 5. R does not know how to produce .wmf -- under Windows, R does
>> device-independent graphics calls that are translated to .wmf, .png,
>> .jpeg, or screen images by the operating system as required. This
>> means it
>> would not be easy to make .wmf on Mac.
>>
>> 6. Implementing .wmf output off Windows does not appear to be a high
>> priority for any of the active (core or non-core) developers. If it
>> happens, someone else will have to do it.
>>
>> 7. Many people have strong views on Word that go beyond questions
>> of the
>> use of R on Mac OS X platforms.
>>
>>
>>  	-thomas
>>
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