Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:24:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Junker <brian@stat.cmu.edu>
Subject: Splus figures in MSWORD

All,

Several of you have been wondering how to include Splus figures in MS
Word documents.  

There are two approaches:

1. Make the figure in Splus2000 on a windows machine, and save it to a
windows metafile (.wmf).  Word will import wmf figures.  However this is
not very workable since going back and forth between Splus on Suns and
Splus on windows is not very pleasant.

2. Save the figure as usual as a .ps file, e.g. use the ps()  command
that we have talked about in class.  In this example, I'll call the file
"myfile.ps".  Then get out of Splus and convert the .ps file to a format
msword can deal with:

   (a) At the UNIX command prompt, type 

       	convert myfile.ps myfile.tif

          [If this doesn't work, try:

            gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=myfile.tif -dBATCH myfile.ps

          This will generate lines like the following on your screen:

            GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17)
            Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All
            rights reserved.  This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see
            the file COPYING for details. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font
            from /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb... 
            1956260 637254 1320184 31583 0 done.
 	    >>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

          After these lines have been printed on your screen, press enter
          to quit the program.]
       
       Now you should have a file in your local directory called 
       "myfile.tif".

   (b) View the file by typing "xv myfile.tif &".  If the picture needs
       to be rotated, right-click on the picture to bring up a tools 
       window, and use the rotate button.  Then of course re-save the
       rotated picture (as an uncompressed tiff file), and quit xv [by
       pressing "q", or clicking the "quit" button if you see it].
  
   (c) Transfer the "myfile.tif" to your PC (using WS-FTP or whatever
       you usually use to transfer files to a PC from andrew-land [be
       sure to transfer it as a binary file though!]).

   (d) MS word will now be able to import "myfile.tif", using the
       "Insert -> Picture -> From File..." dialog from the
       pulldown menus.  Once it's in MS word, you can resize it and
       position it however you like.

Hope this helps,

-BJ

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