I'm running F8 (since January) and using openoffice 2.3 (RedHat's rpms). Now all of a sudden I cannot insert eps graphics nor convert them using draw to emf. It says it doesn't recognize the file format. It had also started saying my personal files were locked but re-booting has seemed to stop this. How can I fix this?
Rick B.
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:10 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
I'm running F8 (since January) and using openoffice 2.3 (RedHat's rpms). Now all of a sudden I cannot insert eps graphics nor convert them using draw to emf. It says it doesn't recognize the file format. It had also started saying my personal files were locked but re-booting has seemed to stop this. How can I fix this?
Rick B.
It wasn't a problem with openoffice. It was a problem with the supposed eps file (created from R using cairo_ps function instead of postscript function).
Rick B.
Rick Bilonick rab@nauticom.net writes:
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:10 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
I'm running F8 (since January) and using openoffice 2.3 (RedHat's rpms). Now all of a sudden I cannot insert eps graphics nor convert them using draw to emf. It says it doesn't recognize the file format. It had also started saying my personal files were locked but re-booting has seemed to stop this. How can I fix this?
Rick B.
It wasn't a problem with openoffice. It was a problem with the supposed eps file (created from R using cairo_ps function instead of postscript function).
Rick B.
Rick,
You might note from ?cairo in R, in the Details section:
The cairo_ps output is not yet encapsulated (that is coming in cairo 1.6).
Also, if you are using a current version of R, you might want to note the relatively new setEPS() function. See ?setEPS for more information.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:04 -0500, Marc Schwartz wrote:
Rick Bilonick rab@nauticom.net writes:
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:10 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
I'm running F8 (since January) and using openoffice 2.3 (RedHat's rpms). Now all of a sudden I cannot insert eps graphics nor convert them using draw to emf. It says it doesn't recognize the file format. It had also started saying my personal files were locked but re-booting has seemed to stop this. How can I fix this?
Rick B.
It wasn't a problem with openoffice. It was a problem with the supposed eps file (created from R using cairo_ps function instead of postscript function).
Rick B.
Rick,
You might note from ?cairo in R, in the Details section:
The cairo_ps output is not yet encapsulated (that is coming in cairo 1.6).
Also, if you are using a current version of R, you might want to note the relatively new setEPS() function. See ?setEPS for more information.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
Thanks for the information. I should have checked out the function more but I was in a hurry. The problem I was having with the R postscript funciton under F8 was that it was creating gray images instead of color images. I couldn't figure out how to get the color. The cairo_ps function produced color images. I used eps2eps hoping it would fix what was wrong and it did. So I got the color and a usable eps file. I'll look into setEPS.
Rick B.
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