[R-SIG-Mac] Plot format

[Don MacQueen]

I have found graphics saved with the png() driver to be of sufficient 
quality to place in PowerPoint on the Mac, and use for presentations.

png() does require a running X windows server (which I don't consider 
to be a problem, but many Mac users do), but I would expect the GDD() 
driver to generate good quality as well.

-Don

At 12:31 PM -0400 5/30/07, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>Guangjie,
>
>On May 30, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Guangjie Chen wrote:
>
>>  I have been using R for Windows for a while, but i want to change 
>>  to R for Mac. The only problem is that the image quality of plots 
>>  saved in R for Mac (e.g. pdf) seems not have to good enough quality 
>>  for publications or presentation.
>
>In fact plots saved as PDF have higher quality than the EMF format as 
>PDF is the publishing standard, whereas EMF is restricted by the 
>Windows GDI and its (im)precision. PDFs created by either the PDF 
>device or the Quartz device in R are both precise vector formats 
>without any loss of quality.
>
>Anyway, this is not about the format, but probably about the tools 
>you use. Note that MS tools cannot handle PDF well (they convert it 
>to low-quality bitmaps), but then I hope would not use such tools for 
>publication or presentation... (especially not on a Mac ;)).
>
>Cheers,
>Simon
>
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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA