output issues

[Daniel Levine]

I'm creating R visualization for a report that is being compiled in Word.

I'm on a Mac and I've found that upon insertion of pdf or png files
into the word doc it is degrading the output.

For the last report I borrowed a colleagues pc and used win.metafiles
which worked fine. But I was wondering if there were any other known
solutoins to the word degradation.

I ask the R list because if there is a better output I should be using
I can try that as well.

Thanks,
Dan

[Ted Dunning]

You can try putting in high resolution PNG files, but MS software is pretty notorious for not preserving visual quality of any format other than MS native ones.  Even then, there are problems.

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[Earl]

LaTeX is one solution, if possible

On Aug 18, 4:57 pm, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can try putting in high resolution PNG files, but MS software is pretty
> notorious for not preserving visual quality of any format other than MS
> native ones.  Even then, there are problems.
>

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Daniel Levine <daniel.mark.lev...@gmail.com

[Ted Dunning]

As much as I prefer LaTeX for many purposes, the original requirement likely mandated insertion of report products into word documents.

You are absolutely correct that it is the work of a moment to embed lovely graphics from R into LaTeX documents, though.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Earl <earl.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

LaTeX is one solution, if possible

On Aug 18, 4:57 pm, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can try putting in high resolution PNG files, but MS software is pretty
> notorious for not preserving visual quality of any format other than MS
> native ones.  Even then, there are problems.