From bolker@zoo.ufl.edu  Fri Apr 19 15:32:14 2002
From: bolker@zoo.ufl.edu (Ben Bolker)
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:32:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rd] wmf on Unix?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0204191211210.6742-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0204191031350.859-100000@bolker.zoo.ufl.edu>


  Oh well, too bad ... sorry if I got anyone's hopes up unnecessarily.

  Ben Bolker

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
> >
> >   libEMF (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libemf/) looks like it may be
> > the solution to generating WMF/EMF files on Unix.  It's a general-purpose
> > (LGPL) library that implements the EMF API ...
>
> Unfortunately it appears not to.  (It says it implements a subset for use
> with gnuplot, but even then I don't see how it is enough.) The font
> metrics are always returned as false.  I wondered how it was going to do
> this without the TrueType fonts in evidence ....
>
> R's graphics model depends pretty crucially on accurate font metrics, and
> text positioning is often the trickiest part of writing a graphics driver.
>
>

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[Rd] wmf on Unix?
Ben Bolker