[R] X11 & dev2bitmap

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Steve Arthur wrote:

> Vadim,
> 
> According to:
> 
> http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/bin/windows/windows-9x/base/CHANGES0
> 
> it states ...
> 
> "For changes since the release of R 1.0.0 on 29 Feb 2000 see the file
> CHANGES"
> 
> "Support for GIF format bitmaps has been removed, but support for PNG,JPEG
> and BMP has been added. This can be done via the File menu on the graphics
> window, savePlot() or dev.print to the new devices png(), bmp() and
> jpeg(), which can also be used directly."
> 
> not on UNIX.

But there are png() and jpeg() (and bitmap()) devices now on UNIX.
The reason there is not a bmp() device on UNIX is that we did not
anticipate any demand for a Windows format there.

There are lots of tools on Unix to convert these bitmap formats from one to
another, so we have no intention of providing a comprehensive set.
There are fewer such tools on Windows, and they have more restrictions,
so we tried a little harder there.

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