Thanks for the reply. I got that there is no general way to generate PDF with ttf or otf fonts. Thanks, it's enough.
Also, cario_pdf is useful (I'm using OSX). But I found it cannot correctly(?) work with CJK. I will play with them some more. Thanks again. -- Kohske Takahashi <takahashi.koh...@gmail.com> Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan. http://www.fennel.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/profilee_ktakahashi.html On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > 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. >> >> -- >> Kohske Takahashi <takahashi.koh...@gmail.com> >> >> Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, >> The University of Tokyo, Japan. >> http://www.fennel.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/profilee_ktakahashi.html >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > 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.
