On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Doug Wiens wrote:
> This may not be an S-Plus question; my apologies if not.
>
> Starting in S-Plus (2000) I created a number of figures, which I then
> pasted into a manuscript as .wmf files. The work is now appearing in a
> journal which requires figures to be in .ps or .eps format. Is there a
> way to do this, without re-doing the simulations that led to the
> original plots? (Yes, I know we should have held onto the plotted data;
> they got lost in a shuffle.)
Even if you had the data, getting good .ps out of S-PLUS 2000 is
non-trivial. The `Export to EPS' filter degrades the output.
We used to use a shareware application called wmf2eps when earlier versions
of S-PLUS for Windows had even more problems exporting in .ps. You can
find it on CTAN sites, e.g. www.ctan.org, under
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support
Alternatively, you can install an Adobe postscript printer driver on a
Windows machine, and print the file (possibly embedded into a simple
document), selecting EPS output. This is not always 100% successful:
wmf2eps is a more reliable way to use the postscript printer driver.
(And at one point NT4 had no .eps driver.)
A more desperate measure (which we have resorted to) is to embed into Word,
convert to PDF using Acrobat (the full product), then export to PS using
the Acrobat ExportPS filter.
None of the routes we have ever seen come close to the quality of
postscript from the postscript() driver in S-PLUS 6.x.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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