On 19-Nov-09 11:52:57, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > 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
Many thanks, Deepayan! I wasn't aware of that route. Using synaptic on Debian (Etch), with Search: msttcorefonts the font files were installed quite painlessly. I now have: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbd.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbi.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ariali.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf so should be able to make progress as described in the Guidelines. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 19-Nov-09 Time: 12:17:51 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.