Hi Folks, I'm encountering some problems importing an EPS file into a groff document. This is part of an attempt to resolve difficulties arising in the production of EPS graphics using the R statistical software package, in particular the use of the function embedFonts(). For those who want to track it to source, the email thread on the R-help mailing list starts at:
[R] eps file with embedded font Simone Gabbriellini in the thread-based listing at https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-September/thread.html It has been partially solved (by Paul Murrel in that thread). What, however, seems to remain is the issue of importing the file successfully into a document. To test this, I used groff (of course ... ). Attached are two EPS files: test1.eps test1-EMB2.eps The first was plain EPS output from a simple plot-test in R, and it is nicely visible using 'gv' and also imports nicely into groff with (using ms macros) [A]: .LP .PSPIC test1.eps 4i The second, in its present form, is also nicely visible with 'gv'. However, when I try to further include it into the document with [B}: .LP .PSPIC test1.eps 4i .sp 2 .PSPIC test1-EMB2.eps 4i the resulting PS file, when viewed in 'gv', gives a brief glimpse of the (previously successfully imported) graphic from test1.eps, as before, along with a brief glimps of the very top of the graphic from test1-EMB2.eps at the bottom of the page, and in the wrong size. Furthermore, the resulting PS file when printed on a PostScript printer simply produces a blank sheet of paper. When the groff command is run, there is a message: grops:test1-EMB2.eps:14: missing argument whose source I cannot track down! I don't have access to other software which can create documents with imported EPS files. In particular I have not tried TeX (maybe someone would be so kind as to try)! The OpenOffice oowriter does not seem to accept EPS files in any case. The R command embedFonts() generated the following ghostscript command to create test1-EMB2.eps from test1.eps: gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sDEVICE=pswrite \ -sOutputFile=/tmp/RtmpjFAoV4/Rembed74b0dc51 \ -sFONTPATH= -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=720 \ -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=360 test1.eps (the output temporarily stored in /tmp/RtmpjFAoV4/Rembed74b0dc51 ). I would be grateful if anyone could a) Try importing these two files into a groff document on the lines of [B] above, to see if they get a better result; b) Try importing them both into a document using different software; c) Come up with suggestions about what the prblem with the second EPS file might be! With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[email protected]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Sep-09 Time: 16:05:05 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
test1.eps
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test1-EMB2.eps
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