On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, bert stumm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to use the sfrm1000.pfb Type-1 font with my postscript plots. When I
> add family=CM to the postscript() command the output is empty. What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> # define font
> CM <- Type1Font('ComputerModern', # font ID
> c(file.path(getwd(), c('sfrm1000.afm', '', '', ''))), # font metrics
> encoding='AdobeStd'); # font encoding
>
> postscript('sin.ps', family=CM);
> dev.off();
>
> I have the two files sfrm1000.afm and sfrm1000.pfb. To my knowledge the
> Type-1 font is the pfb file, which I never gave explicitly.
Correct: the printer uses the font: R uses only the font meta-information.
> Furthermore I am
> confused by the fact that I have to give 4 afm files. (sfrm1000.afm and
> sfrm1000.pfb are from the latex cm-super package.)
For plain, italic, bold and bold italic faces.
> Futhermore if someone has a HOWTO on using LaTeX fonts with R, please provide
> a pointer.
See http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf
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