On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Ben Bolker <bol...@ufl.edu> wrote: > Eduardo J. Chica <ejchica <at> gmail.com> writes: >> Hi I am having problems with the rendering of scientific symbols (mu and >> degree) in my plots. Whenever I use these symbols they are rendered >> changed (mu is changed to the proportionality symbol and degree is >> changed to something resembling a gamma) in the X-device. If I make a >> pdf of the plot and open the file in Evince or Okular symbols are also >> rendered wrong, however if I open the file with Xpdf or Acroread they >> are rendered correctly. >> >> I did not have this problem before, it arose after I upgraded both R and >> my system (Ubuntu karmic koala to lucid lynx), so I can not tell for >> sure if the problem is R-related or Ubuntu related (I have posted in a >> Ubuntu forum also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1325289). > > Could you please post a reproducible example? It would be > good to see exactly what you are doing, and it will save time > for anyone who wants to try your example on their machine to > try to narrow down the problem. > > Ben Bolker
I have noticed something similar. Even a regular plot, say plot(c(1:10)) when put into a pdf file via pdf() device, will display incorrect symbols in linux pdf viewers (evince, okular). The circles (o) become q, literally the letter q, and lose colors. In Acroread I see the plots as they should be. This started happening around R-2.9 or so. Am also not sure whether it's the R pdf or pdfCairo, or whether it's a bug in the evince/okular backend. Peter ______________________________________________ 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.
