R help - Oct 2004 - Mac: importing saved PDF figures into Illustrator CS

Hello,

This is a usage question for others with experience of R under the Aqua Mac OS X
interface.

Basically, I don't succeed in importing PDF files (created with the
'Save As' menu to Quartz device windows) into Illustrator. Versions up
to (and including?) 10 loose paths (lines/polygons) and or fill them in black.
Version CS (11) on the Mac imports almost correctly, but, "to preserve
appearance, some text has been outlined". In other words: *all* text in the
figure is converted to polygons. Somewhat annoying if one plans to edit the
text, and in general change the appearance. I've asked on both the Apple and
Adobe Illustrator forums (http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13 at
114.dQNuchE8byf.1@.3bb6383d/0), but have not yet received any reply. Maybe
someone here has found a way to tell Illustrator not to outline ('preserve
editability', in their jargon), or some other workaround?

Thanks in advance,
Ren?? Bertin

Rene Bertin wrote:

 > Hello,
 >
 > This is a usage question for others with experience of R under the  
Aqua Mac OS
 > X interface.
 >
 > Basically, I don't succeed in importing PDF files (created with the  
'Save As'
 > menu to Quartz device windows) into Illustrator. Versions up to (and
 > including?) 10 loose paths (lines/polygons) and or fill them in  
black. Version
 > CS (11) on the Mac imports almost correctly, but, "to preserve  
appearance,
 > some text has been outlined". In other words: *all* text in the  
figure is
 > converted to polygons. Somewhat annoying if one plans to edit the  
text, and in
 > general change the appearance. I've asked on both the Apple and Adobe
 > Illustrator forums
 >  
(http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx? 
13 at 114.dQNuchE8byf.1@.3bb6383d/0),
 > but have not yet received any reply. Maybe someone here has found a  
way to
 > tell Illustrator not to outline ('preserve editability', in their
jargon), or
 > some other workaround?
 >
 > Thanks in advance, Ren?? Bertin


No real solution but try the pdf command instead of saving with the menu

pdf(file='~/Desktop/figure.pdf')
curve(x^2)
dev.off()

the resulting pdf file can be read into Illustrator CS without  
outlining the text (Mac OS X 10.3.5 with R 1.9.1) but each character is  
in a separate text frame.

As far as I remember the paths were not lost in Illustrator 10 but just  
were invisible. Selecting everything inside the plot region and setting  
the opacity to 100% (can be done in the transparency window) solved the  
problem.

Tilo