On Jul 10, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Edwin Sun wrote: > Hello all, > > I cannot embed a common font type into an R graph. I did it successfully in > December 2014 with the previous R version. However, with R 3.2.1 in July > 2015, the following sample codes do not work anymore. > > pdf(file = "c:/testA.pdf", family = "serif") > plot(x = 1:10, y = rnorm(10)) > dev.off() > embedFonts(file = "c:/testA.pdf", outfile = "c:/testB.pdf") >
When you look at ?embedFonts it becomes obvious that this is a process mediated by GhostScript, an external program no under the control of the R Team, but rather a system facility that you are responsible for maintaining on your unspecified (but inferable) operating system. > As a result, both testA.pdf and testB.pdf cannot embed the fonts into the > graph. That sentence did not make sense to me. I would have expected 'testA.pdf" to have been altered at all. -- David. Since You are posting through Nabble I'd suggest you read the Posting Guide: R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. > Specifically, Adobe Acrobt reveals that "Times-Roman" is substituted > by "TimesNewRomanPSMT", and "ZapfDingbats" is substituted by "AdobePiStd". > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Edwin > > <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4709707/Capture.png> > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Embed-fonts-in-an-R-graph-tp4709707.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
