Marc
Thanks for trying this.
Your PDF exhibited the problematic behavior (half-size). It appears that we
are using the same version of the OS. We are using the same generation of Word
(Office Home & Business 2016 for Mac (Work At Home)) although there are
probably several versions of Office floating around. This left the version of
R — but I can confirm the same problematic behavior with R 3.4.4.
Of note, this behavior exists on two different OS X machines but a third
computer with OS X 13.2 works correctly.
Also, when I use R to create an RTF document that contains JPEG images, the
same problem happens.
I am at a loss — perhaps there is something weird about my version of Office or
some preference that is set incorrectly.
Dennis
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> On Mar 26, 2018, at 8:33 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Mar 26, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote:
>>
>> R 3.4.3
>> OS X 13.3
>>
>> Colleagues
>>
>> I have encountered surprising behavior in the following circumstance:
>>
>> 1. I create a one-page PDF in R. The command might be:
>> pdf(“/path/to/file”, width=5, height=3.5)
>>
>> 2. When I open the PDF in Preview, the “inspector” confirms the intended
>> size.
>>
>> 3. I embed the PDF into Word for Mac (the newest version). I accomplish
>> this in one of several ways, all leading to the same outcome:
>> a. I drag the icon into Word
>> b. I copy the thumbnail and paste into Word
>> c. I drag the thumbnail into Word
>>
>> 4. Previously, after the page was embedded, the size matched the
>> specifications (5 x 3.5, in this instance). Now, the width is one-half of
>> the intended size.
>>
>> 5. Interestingly, when I drag the thumbnail into Word, the image appears
>> twice
>>
>> I suspect that the problem is in Word, rather than R, but I am curious as to
>> whether anyone has encountered this and has a solution.
>>
>> Dennis
>
>
> Hi Dennis,
>
> Try it with the attached PDF, created with:
>
> pdf("test.pdf", width = 5, height = 3.5)
> plot(1:5)
> dev.off()
>
> I am using R 3.4.4 on macOS 10.13.3, with Word 2016.
>
> When I drag the pdf file from my desktop into Word, or the thumbnail from
> Preview, the size of the embedded object is correct and I get the correct
> preview image of the plot in Word.
>
> If I copy and paste the thumbnail into Word, it has the correct size, the but
> preview image in Word appears to be bitmapped, instead of vector, so the
> quality of the image in Word is not as good. Similar to what one might see
> embedding an EPS file in Word.
>
> Also, if I "Insert" object from the Word menu, and select the PDF file, I get
> the correct size and the vector based image.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>
> <test.pdf>
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