Julie,
If you have become good at navigating through both Unix and Wintel, then you
might take an additional leap and try the following:
1) Get the figure to look good in S-plus on your screen
2) Use a screen capture program and save the image as a jpg (dont know one
off-hand for unix)
3) Touch up, i.e. resize to fit into word document, the jpg using something
like photoshop
4) Import the jpg (your s-plus figure) into word
Once you have done it a few times this method is quick and easy to use with
the added bonus that it preserves the same view you see in s-plus! I have
used this method extensively for my thesis figures.
I do realize there are "built-in" figure saving options (both in the gui and
native s calls) to export figures from s-plus, but I have been unsatisfied
with their results. There is also another path you could try. Not sure if
unix s-plus allows this, but in windows s-plus 2k (version 6?) there is an
option in one of the drop-down menus that allows you to export your figure
to powerpoint. This sometimes works well, but manipulating the figure once
in powerpoint can be cumbersome.
Hope that helps!
Cheers -Jon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: "Julie Thornton" <jthornto@bio.ri.ccf.org>
Cc: <s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [S] Importing/Exporting Graphics
> 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.
>
> --
> 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)
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