[R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint

[Marc Schwartz]

In addition to the manner in which the PDF files are generated, you might want to consider the possibility that the lines are artifacts created by your PDF viewer.

See:

  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-are-there-unwanted-borders


Regards,

Marc Schwartz


On Jun 3, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) <wolfgang.viechtbauer at maastrichtuniversity.nl> wrote:

> I have come across this issue many times. I have yet to find a pattern in what causes this.
> 
> At least I can offer a workaround. Instead of using "Save As" to create the pdf, what I do is "Print" with "Adobe PDF" as the printer. This gets rid of those lines and the resulting pdf looks just as nice.
> 
> There is one slight disadvantage to this. Hyperlinks in your Powerpoint presentation that are not directly given as a URL (with no line breaks) will no longer work. So, if you have:
> 
> http://www.r-project.org/
> 
> in your slide, then this will be "clickable". However, if the hyperlink is a property of the object (e.g., text, button) in the slide, then it won't be anymore clickable when you "print" it (while "Save As" does preserve those links).
> 
> Best,
> Wolfgang
> 
> --   
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> School for Mental Health and Neuroscience   
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller
>> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 13:58
>> To: Erling Johan Frøysa; r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Strange behaviour of R graphics copied to PowerPoint
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>> I have not seen this particular problem, but I have seen other problems
>> and I tend to export bitmaps or pdf files as a result.
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>> "Erling Johan Frøysa" <erling.froysa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am using R to create graphics, especially to plot time series charts.
>>> These charts are then copied as metafiles (for best quality) to a
>>> PowerPoint
>>> presentation and then saved to PDF (via the "Save As" dialog").
>>> 
>>> Attached is two pictures. The first picture shows how my chart looks
>>> like in
>>> the R Graphics window, and the second picture shows how the chart
>>> becomes
>>> after saving it to PDF.
>>> 
>>> < http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4668522/R.png>
>>> 
>>> < http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4668522/Rppt.png>
>>> 
>>> As you can see. After saving the metafile to PDF via PowerPoint, some
>>> straight lines appears (it seems like all of the lines has the same
>>> origin
>>> in the upper left corner and ends somewhere on the times series line).
>>> This
>>> happens in both plot() and ggplot(). The problem appears more often
>>> when
>>> using daily data in my time series. With monthly data the problem don't
>>> exist.
>>> 
>>> Have anyone experienced this before? Do you think the problem is
>>> related to
>>> R or to Powerpoint?
>>> 
>>> Thanks all,
>>> 
>>> E