On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Julie Thornton wrote:
> I work on a PC and log into Unix using Exceed. When I have several
> plots on a page, it is really difficult to put the same plot I see in
> the S-PLUS (Unix version) graphics windows into Word (on PC side; most
> investigators want to receive memos in Word). I save them as word meta
> files (using wmf.graph) in S-PLUS and then insert them into Word. I
> often lose numbers on my axes and the resolution is much poorer in Word.
> I spend a lot of time going back and forth between operating systems to
> make the plots look right in Word. The plots look extremely different
> in S-PLUS, Word, and even when they are printed. Has anyone else
> experienced this and/or have any suggestions? Do you think having
> S-PLUS on the PC side would be helpful?
Yes, somewhat. But the problem is that `wmf' is a proprietary
non-standard and Insightful's best attempts to track it (kudos to Bill
Dunlap) are not perfect, even on Windows. (Pause: whichever statistical
package on Unix can write wmf at all?) And `Word' can famously mangle wmf
that any other application can read.
If you can, use postscript and include in `Word' docs. If you can't, an
alternative route is http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit/ which despite its
website (thanks Bill Pikounis) can convert postscript to wmf on Unix on
Unix/Linux. Again, not perfect.
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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 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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