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[S] Summary: converting Splus (UNIX) plots to other common PC file fo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abdolell, Mohamed)
Thu Aug 19 16:35:47 1999
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From: "Abdolell, Mohamed" <Mohamed_Abdolell@pmh.toronto.on.ca>
To: "'s-news'" <s-news@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:26:57 -0400
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A belated thanks to all those (12) who responded to my inquiry a few weeks
ago w.r.t. to this issue.
Although I have in the past, as a number of people suggested, sucessfully
inserted .eps files into MS Word (not visible on the screen, but printable
to paper), I have not been sucessful using this approach this time, and I
simply cannot figure out why. I followed instructions as outlined by a
number of people and it did not work ... I will continue to try in case I am
repeatedly making a silly mistake.
It turned out that the only solution that finally worked for me was to read
the .ps files from Splus into Ghostview and to output from there either
.pdf, .wmf, .bmp files. Ghostview is free off the web (both UNIX and
Windows versions).
In another note Prof. Harrell mentioned the use of ImageMagic (also free off
the web) ... I will try that using Perl Magic - sounds great for batch
processing of images!
The .wmf and .bmp formats were simply inserted into Microsoft Word. The
.pdf format is readable and printable using the Adobe Acrobat Reader that
can be freely downloaded from the web.
If the plot does not need to be inserted directly into the MS Word document,
then I found the .pdf format to be the more appealing choice since there is
no degradation of the image in the conversion process (at least none that I
could see). I know that I can increase the dpi when converting to .wmf or
.bmp to produce smoother plots, however the size of the files increases
considerably. Perhaps related to this I found that the insertion into MS
Word documents of .wmf or .bmp caused an incredible sluggishness of the
wordprocessor. My computer has been recently upgraded including 64 MB RAM
and perhaps can now handle the larger sized files ... we shall see.
Using LaTeX was not an option given that these medical doctors want to
insert the plots into either MS Word for manuscript submissions or MS
Powerpoint for presentation purposes.
Again, many thanks to all who responded - too many to list.
Mohamed Abdolell
The University Health Network
Princess Margaret Hospital
Biostatistics Department
Toronto, ON CANADA
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