Hi Erik! I googled and found that very helpful message on this adress: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/grDevices/html/pdf.html But when i type ?pdf I get directed here: http://127.0.0.1:29358/library/grDevices/html/pdf.html
which doesn't contain that information. Thanks for the help 2010/11/4 Erik Iverson <er...@ccbr.umn.edu> > > Just read the help page :). > This is under "Note" in the ?pdf. > > > On some systems the default plotting character pch = 1 is > displayed in some PDF viewers incorrectly as a "q" character. > (These seem to be viewers based on the poppler PDF rendering > library). This may be due to incorrect or incomplete mapping of > font names to those used by the system. Adding the following > lines to ~/.fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf may circumvent > this problem. > > > > <alias binding="same"> > <family>ZapfDingbats</family> > <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept> > </alias> > > > I've found that in my case, this happens when viewing a PDF > with that plotting character under old versions of Evince, but > not newer. > > --Erik > > Rafael Björk wrote: > >> Dear R-users >> >> When trying to import graphics from an pdf-file to a Vector graphics >> editor >> (I use Inkscape, but i've confirmed the same problem on adobe products), >> all >> points in the graphics turn out as "q"s. >> This example displays the beaviour: >> >> pdf(file="points are weird.pdf") >> plot(1:5) >> dev.off() >> >> When importing the file to inkscape, I get five neatly arranged little >> "q"s. >> The obvious workaround would be to change the points into another plotting >> character, but this isn't the first time i've encountered this behaviour, >> and it would be nice to solve it properly instead. >> I realize this might not strictly be a question related to R, but if >> someone >> who've encountered the problem has found a solution or workaround it would >> be greatly appreciated. >> >> Kind regards/ >> Rafael >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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