[R] pstoedit

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

> On 13-Apr-05 Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, BORGULYA [iso-8859-2] Gábor wrote:
>>
>>>    Has onyone experience with "pstoedit"
>>>    (http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit)
>>> to convert eps graphs generated by R on Linux to Windows
>>> formats (WMF or EMF)? Does this way work? Is there an other,
>>> better way?
>>
>> You can only do that using pstoedit on Windows.
>>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Well, I have pstoedit on Linux and with
>
>  pstoedit -f emf infile.eps outfile.emf
>
> I get what is claimed to be "Enhanced Windows metafile"
> and which can be imported into Word (though then it is
> subsequently somewhat resistant to editing operations,
> such as rotating if it's the wrong way up).

Maybe, but the URL quoted says

pstoedit 3.40

# Windows Meta Files (WMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)
# Enhanced Windows Meta Files (EMF) (Windows 9x/NT only)

so the quoted URL claims otherwise for the current version.

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