On 7/22/2005 10:26 AM, Christian Bieli wrote: > Dear all > > I've got some problems submitting a manuscript, because I can't manage > creating the favourable eps-file of a graph created in R. The journal's > graphic requirements are as followed: > format: eps > width: max. 6 inches > resolution: min. 1000 dpi > supported fonts: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Symbol, Times, Charcoal, > Chicago, Geneva, Georgia, Monaco, Zapf, New York > > Itried to ways of getting appropriate file: > > 1.Creating eps-file in R by drawing into a x11-device and then: > /dev.copy2eps(file = "file.eps", onefile = TRUE, paper = "a4", family = > "Helvetica", pointsize=1, print.it = FALSE, fonts = "Helvetica") > > /2. Generating a postscript-file in R with / > //postscript(file = "file.ps", onefile = TRUE, paper = "a4", family = > "Helvetica", width = 6, height = 2.2, pointsize=1, print.it = FALSE, > fonts = "Helvetica")/ > an trying to convert it in ghostview.
The ?postscript man page suggests using onefile = FALSE to get an EPSF header directly. It also suggests paper="special", and horizontal=FALSE. If that doesn't work, you'll have to ask whoever wrote the quality checking program what they're looking for. Duncan Murdoch > > Neither approach brought the favoured result. The error message I got > from the quality checking program was : > > Warning: Document is Missing Non-Standard Font > > One or more non-standard fonts used in this image is not embedded. Standard > fonts are: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Symbol, Times, Charcoal, Chicago, > Geneva, Georgia, Monaco, Zapf, New York. > > In order to repair this problem, save your document with fonts embedded. > > Error: Missing Fonts > > Challenge > One or more linked or used fonts cannot be found. This is caused by > DigitalExpert not being able to locate fonts on your system. All fonts used > in the document must be active or have a defined and valid path so that > DigitalExpert can find them. > > Solution > The only way to repair this problem is to make the fonts available to > DigitalExpert, and then reprocess the files. In order to make fonts active, > either activate them using a font management program, or move them into the > system:fonts folder. > > > > 1. Obviously there's a font problem. Helvetica IS installed in my OS > (windows 2000). Why "DigitalExpert" does not recognize the "Helvetica" > font as a standard font? I thought the fonts option would embed the > specified font in the file. Am I right or is there another way to embed > fonts? > 2. Is there a way to set up the resolution of the created ps/eps-file in > R (until now I did the settings in ghostview)? > 3. I did not find particulars about the pointsize option. What is the > effect of changing the pointsize value? > > With best regards > Christian > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
