On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Kohske Takahashi wrote:
Deal all,
I want to know if truetype or opentype fonts are available in pdf
device (i.e., pdf() or dev.copy2pdf()), and if so, how to do it?
They are not in general available in PDF, the language. The
cairo-based device embed individual glyph information from such fonts
(perhaps as vectors and perhaps as bitmaps).
Now I can do as followings:
1. convert ttf to afm using ttf2afm, e.g.: $ ttf2afm Impact.ttf > Impact.afm
2. put the afm file in $R_HOME/library/grDevices/afm
3. register a new type1 font: pdfFonts(Impact=Type1Font("Impact",
rep("Impact.afm", 4), encoding = "TeXtext.enc"))
4. specify the fontfamily in gpar: grid.text('hello grid world',
gp=gpar(fontfamily="Impact"))
but obviously, it is better if truetype or opentype fonts are directly
available without conversion to type1 font.
But you would still need to make the font available to your PDF
viewer/printer, and in general that does need coversion (to a font
type supported in PDF or to bitmaps/vectors).
Also, I found that Cairo package can handle truetype or opnetype font.
However, the package seems not to support fontfamily, hence I cannot
use it through gpar.
Have you not considered the built-in and fully featured cairo_pdf
device? (Not Windows, but you didn't tell us your OS.)
Does anyone know about this topic?
Thank you in advance.
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Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology,
The University of Tokyo, Japan.
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