Thanks to all who replied to the following query; a summary of the
responses follows as well. The software wmf2eps seems to be quite
adequate for the task.
> > Subject: [S] converting .wmf to .ps?
> >
> >
> > 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.)
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
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From:
"Warnes, Gregory R" <gregory_r_warnes@groton.pfizer.com>
Here's something to try: Add a postscript printer (say an Apple
LaserWriter), tell it to print to a file, and then print your WMF. That
should create it as a postscript file. You may then need to use ps2epsi
or
another tool to make it into a real eps file.
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From:
Madeline Bauer <mbauer@usc.edu>
Try this!
Step 1:
If you have a driver for a postscript printer, you use the printer setup
menu to set the output to a file with postscript as the output type.
Step 2:
Then open the wmf file with some compliant application
Step 3:
"print" it to the "printer" that you set up in step 1. You should be
prompted for the file name (change the extension to ps).
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From:
"Steven C. Wofsy" <scw@io.harvard.edu>
An easy way is to paste the wmf into powerpoint, then print-to-file
using
any decent postscript driver, e.g. QMS laserscript 1000. You may have to
"add printer" to put on a good ps driver.
Print one slide at a time each to its own file. To make eps files use
any
ps-to-eps code, ghostview is fine.
When you bring up the printer dialog, you should find
the postscript options (properties, or "advanced", or whatever). Select
"archive format". The default, "optimize for speed", puts on improper
control characters that can cause trouble.
Next time suggest you export your graphs directly to eps from SP2000.
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From:
John Fox <jfox@mcmaster.ca>
There is a shareware utility, wmf2eps that performs this kind of
conversion. It's available at <http://mitglied.lycos.de/wmf2eps/>.
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From:
Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
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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From:
"Farthing Brendan" <Brendan.Farthing@nrm.qld.gov.au>
Try the software at this site
http://mitglied.lycos.de/wmf2eps/
I have used this some time ago for the very purpose you are suggesting
and found it to be sufficient. I believe there are other such packages
about too if this isn't to your satisfaction.
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