Hi Dennis, I reviewed the Preference settings in Word and did not see anything that to my eye would be relevant to default embedded object sizes.
You might check to be sure that your Office installation is fully updated. There have been several updates of late. My Word is showing version 16.11.1 (180319) in the About Word dialog. Also, right click on the embedded PDF in Word and check "Size and Position...". On the "Size" tab, see what the dialog box is showing for "Original size" at the bottom, and be sure that "Scale" is set to 100% for both height and width. Regards, Marc > On Mar 26, 2018, at 12:01 PM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote: > > 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 > > Dennis Fisher MD > P < (The "P Less Than" Company) > Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) > www.PLessThan.com <http://www.plessthan.com/> > > > > >> On Mar 26, 2018, at 8:33 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com >> <mailto:marc_schwa...@me.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Mar 26, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com >>> <mailto: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> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
