On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Ted Harding <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Greetings All. > According to the PLoS (Public Library of Science) Guidelines > for Figure preparation, if a figure is submitted as EPS rather > than TIFF then "Figure text must be in Arial font" -- see: > > [1] > http://www.plosntds.org/static/figureGuidelines.action#text > > and also other sections in that web-page > > [2] > http://www.plosntds.org/static/figureGuidelines.action > > Now, Arial font is not (as a rule) available in Linux, and > EPS diagrams prepared using R graphics will call for Helvetica > (by default). Of course the Helvetica family is very similar to > Arial, but the in-file font references will call for Helvetica > so a production system which is expecting calls for Arial may > be thrown off the rails by an EPS file which calls for Helvetica. > > While there is a section ("Enable the use of Arial in R") in the
The fact that there is such a section suggests that they accept the resulting files, doesn't it? > Guidelines (URL [2]), the instructions assume the presence of > Arial ".ttf" files, not usually the case with Linux. But easy enough to fix (completely legally, thanks to a licensing oversight by Microsoft): http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ In Debian (and I assume Ubuntu): $ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts -Deepayan [...] ______________________________________________ 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.