On 9/30/07, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Consider the following piece of code: > > > > pdf(file="figure.pdf", family="Palatino") > > plot(0,0,type='n', xlim=c(-20,20), ylim=c(0,2),xlab="",ylab="",axes=F) > > text(-1.4,1.168,expression(italic("The font looks different when this > > is seen with Acrobat Reader!")),xpd=T) > > dev.off() > > > > When viewing the produced figure.pdf with kpdf (on Linux), it looks as > > being written with LaTeX Mathpazo font, but not when one views > > figure.pdf with Acrobat Reader. Any ideas about how to get the same > > result both with kpdf and with Acrobat Reader? > > Note that R does not embed the fonts by default in the PDF file. > > Based upon what I am seeing here on F7, which is consistent with your > comments, the font substitution mapping in Adobe Reader 8 is different > than that in either kpdf, gv or in Evince. The latter three appear to be > using the same font substitution and look the same. > > You might want to review ?pdfFonts and ?embedFonts for additional > information as well as the article by Paul Murrell and Prof. Ripley in R > News on non-standard fonts: > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf
Thanks, Marc. With embedFonts, everything gets right! Paul ______________________________________________ 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.