See Addendum at end.
On 19-Nov-09 12:17:54, Ted Harding wrote:
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.
Addendum:
Well, the fonts were installed as above, indeed. However, according
to the PLoS Guidelines one must generate .afm files before using
them in R, along the lines of:
First, convert the Arial .ttf files to afm:
ttf2afm /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf ~/arial.afm
ttf2afm /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/ariali.ttf ~/ariali.afm
ttf2afm /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/arialbd.ttf ~/arialbd.afm
ttf2afm /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/arialbi.ttf ~/arialbi.afm
and then one can use them in R's postscript() with the family
argument on the lines of
postscript(file=try.ps, horizontal=F, onefile=F, width=4, height=4,
family=c(/home/stephen/arial.afm, /home/stephen/arialbd.afm,
/home/stephen/ariali.afm, /home/stephen/arialbi.afm),
pointsize=12)
However,
(a) I do not have the 'ttf2afm' program;
(b) Synaptic cannot find it in the repositories.
So, I'm off on another hunt!
Ted.
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk
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Date: 19-Nov-09 Time: 12:58:32
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