On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, juli g. pausas wrote:
> I have a problem which I'm not sure if it is due to my machine or if
I'm
> doing something wrong.
>
> I'm ploting a little map using plot(val, type="l", asp=1)
where val is
> the object with the latitude/longitude data.
> In the screen the figure is perfect, and I can copy to the clipboard and
> paste it to other places. I can also saved using png() or jpeg(),
> althoug the quality is much lower. However when I try to save it as
> metafile (from the plot window or by using win.matafile), the file I
> obtain do not keep the x/y ratio. I'm interested in this metafile
> because the quality in much higher then the png, jpeg. Any suggestion?
The quality is even higher in postscript or PDF.
> I'm working with R.1.6.1. on Windows.
> If somebody is interested, I could send them the files, they are very
> small (45 KB).
You cannot look at a win.metafile (it is a binary file in a proprietary
format); you need an application to display it and there is no reason why
that application should preserve the aspect ratio. I just tried pasting
into Word, inserting in Word and a clipboard viewer and all preserved the
aspect ratio, but in each case it could be lost by resizing.
What exactly did you do with the metafile?
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