thanks, berwin. yes, I meant ghostscript 8.62, of course. ps2pdf14 is the equivalent of a distiller and is needed to embed fonts. (R does not embed fonts itself afaik.) if someone knows another way to embed all the fonts, I would love to know so that I can avoid ps2pdf14 altogether (not just in this example, but generally; I use lucida fonts most of the time).
if developers from the R graphics group are reading this, given that this strange output is not just my imagination, maybe it would be worthwhile to see if the R output pdf could be made more robust to avoid this "feature." I stumbled onto it deep in a program, and spend an afternoon distilling it down to the R script that I posted. It was quite puzzling. PS: semicolons are a hobby, and one explicitly allowed by R. ;-). regards, /ivo On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day Ivo, > > On Sat, 17 May 2008 21:33:35 -0400 > "ivo welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> dear R graphics experts--- > > Not belonging to this group, but can confirm that I can see the same, > in particular the circles are changing their size. > > However, I am a bit surprised that you run ps2pdf14 on a PDF file, > according to the documentation the input should be a (E)PS file. > >> if anyone is running the combination of R 2.7.0 and ghostscript >> (2.62), > > and I guess you mean ghostscript 8.62? Ghostscript 2.62 would be > really ancient, probably from before the time that PDF was created... :) > >> could you please run the following > > I will also leave it to somebody else on the list, specifically to > people who find such coding particularly ugly if not offensive, to point > out that semicolons are not needed at the end of lines of R scripts. :) > > HTH. > > Cheers, > > Berwin > > =========================== Full address ============================= > Berwin A Turlach Tel.: +65 6515 4416 (secr) > Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability +65 6515 6650 (self) > Faculty of Science FAX : +65 6872 3919 > National University of Singapore > 6 Science Drive 2, Blk S16, Level 7 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Singapore 117546 http://www.stat.nus.edu.sg/~statba > ______________________________________________ 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.
