Jim Price <price_ja <at> hotmail.com> writes: > > > My apriori apologies if this is felt to be the wrong list for this issue - > although it starts with R, it's a combination of programs that creates the > problem. > > Currently we are using windows metafile format for in-text tables for > reports created in Word. However, we've discovered some artifactual lines > being created in our final output once the Word document is changed to PDF. > The process is as follows: > ... example > > This is then imported into Word 2008 (running on XP Pro 2002 with service > pack 2) using the import picture tool. The resulting file is then saved as a > PDF from Word. > > Although the .wmf file (and R console output if sent to there) look exactly > as you'd expect, there are a series of diagonal lines running from the > bottom of the panel.abline created index line to the upper bound of each > panel.
I could reproduce this, and the same occurs when you export via AdobePdf virtual printer. I had not seen this feature before, but it is rather harmless compared to another issue: wmf and emf do not correctly clip data, so if you do not use automatic scaling, some of you points may end up in the wrong panel. I spoke to the developer of the gsview emf converter, and he confirmed that nothing could be done about it, it is a bug in the specification. Therefore, we do no longer use emf/wmf. Dieter ______________________________________________ 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.
