this may help others. among the set of font resources are the following: http://yihui.name/en/2010/03/font-families-for-the-r-pdf-device/ http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/grDevices/html/postscriptFonts.html http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/grDevices/html/embedFonts.html http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/CM/CMR.html http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Truetype-and-Opentype-font-in-pdf-device-td3218964.html
I don't think there is a complete font installation guide for R anywhere yet. (I may be wrong.) now, for me, the following worked on OSX, thanks to a website I found and thanks to Simon U's Cairo library: [a] use http://www.freefontconverter.com/ to create an opentype font. (this website is amazing. I tore my hair out before I discovered it.) [b] double click on each of the OTF files to install the fonts in OSX. [c] install from cran Simon Urbanek's Cairo package > install.packages("Cairo") [d] load Cairo > library(Cairo) [e] make sure it can find my new font > CairoFontMatch(fontpattern="Bitstream Charter",sort=FALSE,verbose=FALSE) 1. family: "Bitstream Charter", style: "Roman", file: "/Users/iaw4/Library/Fonts/bchr8a.otf" [f] set it to be the default font > CairoFonts( regular="Bitstream Charter:style=Regular" ) you may also want to set the other four R fonts, as described in the docs. [g] create a sample file, > CairoPDF(file="testcharter.pdf") > plot( c(0,1), c(0,1) ) > text( 0.5, 0.5, "This is Bitstream Charter") > dev.off [h] use Adobe Acrobat -> File -> Properties to confirm that your new font is really Bitstream Charter. /iaw ---- Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@gmail.com) ______________________________________________ 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.
