[R] .eps files and powerpoint

[Rmh]

i have parallels 8 as the  vm.
i can try a native pc this afternoon.

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On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:42, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:

> Rich,
> 
> Any chance that you have access to a native Windows machine or to a colleague that does to try the files.
> 
> I am wondering if there is any chance that there is something about running Office in Windows under a VM on OSX that might be involved in some manner.
> 
> BTW, which VM (VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox or ?) are you using?
> 
> Marc
> 
> On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
> 
>> The Header and Prolog of both file.eps and file2.eps are the same.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu>wrote:
>> 
>>> file2.eps opens as a graph in windows PP 2010 and as an icon in PP 2013.
>>> 
>>> RPlot2.pptx <https://www.dropbox.com/s/snm7cb9chrkcrff/RPlot2.pptx> opens
>>> as a graph in both windows PP and in Mac PP.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Rich,
>>>> 
>>>> I don't have direct access to Windows and I don't run a VM on my Mac.
>>>> 
>>>> I e-mailed two PPTX files created on my Mac (Office 2011) to a colleague
>>>> who has Office 2010 on his Windows laptop. The first was the file on
>>>> DropBox that I linked earlier, with the regular plot. The second is this
>>>> PPTX file:
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/snm7cb9chrkcrff/RPlot2.pptx
>>>> 
>>>> which contains this EPS file created with the barchart() code that you
>>>> had below:
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ujchnft7q3aa3pw/file2.eps
>>>> 
>>>> I went over to his office and he could open both PPTX files on his laptop
>>>> and both of the embedded EPS plots were viewable without issue.
>>>> 
>>>> Can you open the PPTX file that I created above on your Windows instance?
>>>> 
>>>> Marc
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 24, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Rmh <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> office 2011 on mac, 2013 on windows.
>>>>> 
>>>>> i see the same misbehavior in base and lattice.
>>>>> my standard simple test is
>>>>> plot(1:10)
>>>>> which is base.
>>>>> 
>>>>> did you try the windows side yet?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rich
> 
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