On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Vilmos Prokaj > Version: 2.6.2 > OS: windows > Submission from: (NULL) (157.181.227.218) > > > I dont know wether my problem is specific to R or not. Using the pdf and > postscript device I realized that the spacing around some accented letter > letter is not correct. > The same problem does not occur with the eps device. For testing I have used > the > following simple code. > > str<-"-|ő|-|Ő|-|ű|-|Ű|-"
And what is that is a reproducible form, in what locale? > pdf() > plot(0:1,0:1,main=str,sub=str,xlab=str,ylab=str) > text(0.5,0.5,str) > dev.off() > > > postscript() > plot(0:1,0:1,main=str,sub=str,xlab=str,ylab=str) > text(0.5,0.5,str) > dev.off() > > Here str contains some hungarian umlaut. The result in the case of pdf device > looks > like as if the letters were crossing with a vertical lines. So my suspect is, > that somethings is worng in the font metrics files. What viewer are you using? Hint: Acrobat does not use the specified fonts unless embedded -- see ?pdf -- 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