On 20-Aug-10 09:24:17, Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 20:32 -0700, Roslina Zakaria wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need some opinion. I would like to use graph that I generate >> from R code and save it into word document. Whichformat is better? >> pdf, jpeg or tiff? > > Not that I have used word for a while myself, but when I did EPS > files were my preferred format for Word docs that were to be printed > or converted to PDF. The only downside is that Word's EPS importer > displays a low resolution bitmap image of the EPS in the document > so things look pretty sketchy on screen. When printed, however, > EPS images will provide top quality. To achieve the same quality > with JPEG or TIFF would require a much larger image file and > consequently a much larger final document. > I still send my Word-using colleagues EPS files for papers we are > writing etc. > > ?postscript for the options needed to produce correct EPS. > > HTH > G
I agree with Gavin about the relative merits of EPS and any bit-mapped format (such as jpeg or tiff). And also with Tim Gruene's earlier comment that "MS product are a little ignorant of PostScript and PDF": not only ignorant, but do not want to know! However, a further comment about "Word's EPS importer": You will only see on screen that "low resolution bitmap image of the EPS" when viewing the Word document IF the EPS file is in fact EPSI, i.e. it includes a "header" as PostScript Comments in the initial section which codes that bitmap for "preview" purposes. EPS files, *as such*, by default do not include this, and then you would only see on screen the outline box with nothing inside it. (The only requirement for a PS file to be EPS is the presence in the Comments of a "%%BoundingBox: ..." line). There is nothing about this that I can see in '?postscript', and running a test using postscript("testEPS.eps") plot(...) dev.off() produced an EPS file with no such EPSI inclusion. There are PostScript-handling program suites, such as ghostscript, which include a facility to convert from EPS to EPSI: in particular, ghostscript has the command ps2epsi. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 20-Aug-10 Time: 10:54:33 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.