R help - Mar 2005 - r under linux: creating high quality bmp's for win users

Hi

I produce graphics with R under linux, but my collaborators often use 
windows and cannot import eps pics e.g. in msword

what is the standard way to get e.g. bmp's with the same quality as eps. 
  going the way: creating eps, convert eps2bmp using 'convert'
doesn't
yield good enough bmp's

thanks for a short hint

cheers
christoph

I suggest using png() in the first place, as MS Word can handle them as
well.

Regards

Markus

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win users


Hi

I produce graphics with R under linux, but my collaborators often use 
windows and cannot import eps pics e.g. in msword

what is the standard way to get e.g. bmp's with the same quality as eps.

  going the way: creating eps, convert eps2bmp using 'convert'
doesn't
yield good enough bmp's

thanks for a short hint

cheers
christoph

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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> I produce graphics with R under linux, but my collaborators often use
windows
> and cannot import eps pics e.g. in msword
Are they sure?  One can import eps images into Word, but you need to print 
them on a postscript printer.
> what is the standard way to get e.g. bmp's with the same quality as
eps.
> going the way: creating eps, convert eps2bmp using 'convert'
doesn't yield
> good enough bmp's
The bitmap() device might do better, although both are really using gs.

I would use png() and convert to bmp with ImageMagick's convert or 
otherwise.

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Dear useRs, 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Jan T. Kim
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:18 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] r under linux: creating high quality bmp's 
> for win users
> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> 
> > I produce graphics with R under linux, but my collaborators 
> often use 
> > windows and cannot import eps pics e.g. in msword
> > 
> 
> P.P.S.: I'll never understand why Word & Co. don't support 
> encapsulated
> postscript. With all that OLE and whatever, it can't be impossible to
> do as LaTeX / xdvi does...?
as far as I know, it is possible now. At least, it recently worked for
me. I could include an eps-file which I produced with R into an ordinary
MS word document. So it should be possible for them to include your
eps-graphics.

Best,
Roland

Here at work, we do have:
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002, Service Pack 2
and
- Microsoft Office Word SP1


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On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> I produce graphics with R under linux, but my collaborators often use 
> windows and cannot import eps pics e.g. in msword
> 
> what is the standard way to get e.g. bmp's with the same quality as
eps.
>  going the way: creating eps, convert eps2bmp using 'convert'
doesn't
> yield good enough bmp's
> 
> thanks for a short hint
The too short version: You can't get bmps of the same quality as
encapsulated
postscript because bmp is a raster format and postscript is a language that
implements vector graphics.

The somewhat more useful (hopefully) version: You can always use gs to
produce a fixed resolution raster snapshot of your EPS file, e.g.

    gs -r600x600 -sDEVICE=bmp16m -sOutputFile=x.bmp -dNOPAUSE x.eps -c quit

This allows you to control the resolution (-r option) and should allow
you to produce any "quality" that may practically suffice, although
this
is a kludge.

Best regards, Jan

P.S.: I believe that the convert program just acts as a wrapper to gs
anyway, with a resolution that is chosen to be useful for screen graphics
rather than for printing.

P.P.S.: I'll never understand why Word & Co. don't support
encapsulated
postscript. With all that OLE and whatever, it can't be impossible to
do as LaTeX / xdvi does...?
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Hello Christoph!

In the past, I used an utility called "eps2wmf".
It only works under Windows though (maybe under Linux with wine?).
I believe it is available on the CTAN (Tex archives).

The nice thing is that wmf files are not bitmap and scale well.

Christophe Pallier


Christoph Lehmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> I produce graphics with R under linux, but my collaborators often use 
> windows and cannot import eps pics e.g. in msword
>
> what is the standard way to get e.g. bmp's with the same quality as 
> eps.  going the way: creating eps, convert eps2bmp using 'convert' 
> doesn't yield good enough bmp's
>
> thanks for a short hint
>
> cheers
> christoph
>
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