This has been discussed extensively on R-help (with a workaround), and is already fixed in R-patched.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Jane L. Harvill > Version: 2.6.0 > OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 > Submission from: (NULL) (129.62.21.93) > > > PROBLEM: The ability to save the contents of an R Graphics window as a > postscript or PDf file through the drop-down menu (File -> Save As -> > Postscript, or File -> Save As -> PDF) results in the error message below > being > printed to the R Console. > > ERROR MESSAGE: > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Error: Invalid font type > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: font family not found in PostScript font database > 2: font family not found in PostScript font database >>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > TO RECREATE THE PROBLEM: > 1. Using the R Console, create some graph in R; for example, > plot(rnorm(100)). > 2. Select File -> Save As -> PostScript (or File -> Save As -> PDF). > 3. Supply a file name and click the "Save" button. > > FOUR OTHER RELEVANT NOTES: > 1. I checked to see if the same error results when invoking the functions > pdf(file=...) or postscript(file=...). No error results, and the content of > the output (.ps or .pdf) file produces a duplicate of what appears in the R > Graphics window. And once you do that, the menus work. > 2. I checked, but did not see any other bug reports in the system that are > relevant to this problem. > > 3. Before I submitted this R Bug Report, I reinstalled the PostScript fonts, > and then reinstalled R Version 2.6.0. This did not change the outcome. > > 4. This problem did not exist in previous versions of R on any of my > computers. > It exists on all computers for version 2.6.0 of R. Only on Windows .... -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
