devEMF (version 0.9-4)

emf: Enhanced Metafile Graphics Device

Description

'emf' starts the graphics device driver for producing enhanced metafile (emf) graphics, which can imported natively as vector graphics in both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office.

Usage

emf(file = "Rplot.emf", width = 7, height = 7,
    bg = "transparent", fg = "black", pointsize = 12,
    family = "Helvetica", custom.lty = FALSE)

Arguments

file

character string giving the name of file.

width

width of plot in inches.

height

height of plot in inches.

bg

plot background color. If "transparent", no background color is painted.

fg

initial foreground color to be used.

pointsize

default font point size to be used.

family

default font family to be used.

custom.lty

logical: if false, approximate R line types with EMF standard line types (any program that imports EMF should support this). If true, use exact R line type via the EMF "PS_USERSTYLE" option, which does not appear to be supported

Details

The standard office suites support very few vector graphics formats for import. Enhanced Metafiles (EMFs) do tend to be supported, which is the purpose of this device.

The EMF specification does not allow for multiple pages; attempting to create multiple pages will result in a warning message and the output file will contain the different pages superimposed. Also, EMF does not allow for embedding fonts. Thus you must be careful that your desired font is present both on the system that you use when you create the emf file (i.e. when you run R) and on the system that you use to import/view the resulting file. Sticking to the standard Adobe PostScript font families is probably a good idea.

EMF has full Unicode character support, and this package tries to maintain full support as well. However, the font metric information is clunkily borrowed from the R postscript device and will not to work properly for non-Latin character sets.

EMF-level clipping is not yet implemented, since R appears to take care of this; however, if you see a problem that could be the result a clipping bug, please contact the author.

See Also

Devices

Examples

require(devEMF)
# open file "bar.emf" for graphics output
emf("bar.emf")
# produce the desired graph(s)
dev.off() #turn off device and finalize file