In my research work, when papers are to be communicated, the format could be either LaTeX or DOC/DOCX. This sends me into a dilemma.
I have generated PDFs (they can be easily included into a latex file) for certain plots using the base plot method. However, I would also like to have the PNG versions of the same plots (since MS Word does not accepts PDFs), and no, I do not want to rewrite codes! Further, the convert
utility of ImageMagick
is also not a preferable option, as there is a severe degradation in terms of resolution when one executes convert myFile.pdf myFile.png
What is the best way? Can we save a plot into a variable and then regenerate the plot to a png / jpg / tiff file?