On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Pedro Mardones wrote: > >> After installing R 2.6.0 I got the following error when I try to save >> a plot as PDF or PS from the windows plot: >> 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 >> However in R 2.5.0 works just fine >> Any ideas how to make it work again (without having to install the >> previous version)? > > It works if postscript() or pdf() has been used in the session, and also > if initPSandPDFfonts() is called (so put that in your .Rprofile).
To be specific, grDevices:::initPSandPDFfonts(). > We'll arrange to do this automatically in R-patched. Done in patch r43083. -- 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-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
