[R] pstoedit

[Mike Prager]

Ted,

Have you tried bringing the eps files directly into Word?  The version I am 
using (Word 2002 = Word 10.x) can incorporate eps files and even generates 
its own previews.

Maybe you don't need to make the conversion at all.

Regards,
...Mike



At 4/13/2005 04:36 AM, you 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).
>
>On the other hand,
>
>   pstoedit -f wmf infile.eps outfile.wmf
>
>which is supposed to produce a Windows metafile, produces
>something which Word resists importing.
>
>Best wishes to all,
>Ted.
>
>
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