I've had something similar and have had better luck using the PrimoPDF software to "Print" a PowerPoint to a PDF device instead of saving from PowerPoint to PDF.
Best, Kevin On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Erling Johan Frøysa < erling.fro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am using R to create graphics, especially to plot time series charts. > These charts are then copied as metafiles (for best quality) to a > PowerPoint > presentation and then saved to PDF (via the "Save As" dialog"). > > Attached is two pictures. The first picture shows how my chart looks like > in > the R Graphics window, and the second picture shows how the chart becomes > after saving it to PDF. > > < http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4668522/R.png> > > < http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4668522/Rppt.png> > > As you can see. After saving the metafile to PDF via PowerPoint, some > straight lines appears (it seems like all of the lines has the same origin > in the upper left corner and ends somewhere on the times series line). This > happens in both plot() and ggplot(). The problem appears more often when > using daily data in my time series. With monthly data the problem don't > exist. > > Have anyone experienced this before? Do you think the problem is related to > R or to Powerpoint? > > Thanks all, > > E > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Kevin Wright [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ 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.
