Às 10:15 de 16/01/2023, Martin Maechler escreveu:
Rui Barradas
     on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:46:43 +0000 writes:

     > Às 08:31 de 16/01/2023, Jeff Newmiller escreveu:
     >> Use the Cairo PDF device?
     >>
     >> On January 16, 2023 12:18:48 AM PST, Dennis Fisher
     >> <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote:
     >>> R 4.2.2 OS X
     >>>
     >>> Colleagues
     >>>
     >>> A file that I have read includes strings like this:
     >>> "EVENT ≥ 30 sec" When I include the string in a graphic
     >>> using: mtext(STRING, …)  it appears as: "EVENT ... 30
     >>> sec"
     >>>
     >>> Is there a simple work-around (short of reformatting all
     >>> the strings, then using plotmath)?
     >>>
     >>> Dennis
     >>>
     >>> Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone /
     >>> Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com
     >>>
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     >>
     > Hello,

     > I had no problems with

     > X11()
     > plot(1,1, pch = "")
     > text(1, 1, "EVENT ≥ 30 sec")
     > #dev.off()

Yes, for me too.
X11() *is*  by default the "X11cairo" device and that works, the
same as the "Cairo PDF" device that Jeff mentioned above.

Indeed,
   cairo_pdf("utf8-ex.pdf")  # works nicely

whereas  pdf("utf8-ex.pdf") does not {for me, with default font
families etc}, but rather shows the "..." instead.

*and* gives warnings during the plot
   conversion failure on 'EVENT ≥ 30 sec' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for 
<e2>
   conversion failure on 'EVENT ≥ 30 sec' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for 
<89>
   conversion failure on 'EVENT ≥ 30 sec' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for 
<a5>

BTW, a simple one liner for testing is

    plot(1, type="n", axes=FALSE, main = "EVENT ≥ 30 sec")

Note that help(pdf)  contains

    See Also:

         pdfFonts, pdf.options, embedFonts, Devices, postscript.

         cairo_pdf and (on macOS only) quartz for other devices that
         can produce PDF.

         More details of font families and encodings and especially
         handling text in a non-Latin-1 encoding and embedding fonts can be
         found in

         Paul Murrell and Brian Ripley (2006).  “Non-standard fonts in
         PostScript and PDF graphics.” _R News_, *6*(2), 41-47.
         <https://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf>.

-
Martin

     > Hope this helps,
     > Rui Barradas
Hello,

I can confrim this behavior with cairo_pdf(), it works as expected printing "EVENT ≥ 30 sec".
But with pdf() I get an equal sign "EVENT = 30 sec" and no errors.
Full code:



cairo_pdf("~/Temp/cairo_pdf_utf8-ex.pdf")  # works
plot(1,1, pch = "")
text(1, 1, "EVENT ≥ 30 sec")
dev.off()
# null device
#           1

pdf("~/Temp/pdf_utf8-ex.pdf")              # prints "=", no warnings
plot(1,1, pch = "")
text(1, 1, "EVENT ≥ 30 sec")
dev.off()
# null device
#           1

sessionInfo()
# R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt)
# Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
# Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22621)
#
# Matrix products: default
#
# locale:
# [1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.utf8  LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.utf8
# [3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
# [5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.utf8
#
# attached base packages:
# [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
#
# loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
# [1] compiler_4.2.1
#


Also, nice trick to print the text as plot title, I will remember that one-liner.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

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