thanks Jonathan, I was wondering about the difference between your second option and the Ted one: isn't it the same thing?
regards, Simone 2009/9/4 Jonathan Baron <ba...@psych.upenn.edu>: > A couple of other ideas about embedding fonts and setting bounding > boxes. These all work on Linux, so in theory they should also work on > OS X, although I have no idea how. > > 1. For setting bounding boxes, you can use gv, which is a PostScript > viewer. As you move the pointer around, you can see the numbers in a > side panel. > > 2. Another way to do it is to set them automatically using ghostscript. > (This is based on a suggested made by Brian Ripley.) Here is a script > that does this for me: > > #!/bin/bash > cat $1 | sed -r -e "s/BoundingBox:[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ ]+[0-9]+[\ > ]+[0-9]+/`gs -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q`/" > temp.eps > gs -sDEVICE=bbox -sNOPAUSE -q $1 $showpage -c quit 2> bb.out > sed -e"1 r bb.out" temp.eps > $1 > /bin/rm bb.out > /bin/rm temp.eps > > The idea is to remove the bounding box that exists and replace it. > You run it by saying > bbox myfile.eps > (It doesn't matter if it is .ps instead of eps at this point.) > > 3. Finally, there is a pdf viewer called xpdf, which will embed fonts > by default if you use it to print to a file. (I'm not sure it still > does this by default, but there is an option for it.) So first > convert to pdf, then read with xpdf, then print to file (and then, if > necessary, convert back to pdf again). This is what I did for my last > book; even though I used standard PostScript fonts, the publisher > insisted that they all be embedded. > > Xpdf comes with a thing called pdffonts that will list the fonts in a > pdf file and tell you whether they are embedded. > > Jon > -- > Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania > Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron > ______________________________________________ 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.
