[R] PLoS, Arial, R linux
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 Guidelines (URL [2]), the instructions assume the presence of Arial .ttf files, not usually the case with Linux. The PLoS Guidelines state: Figure text that requires a font family other than Arial (math symbols, etc.) must have the font information embedded in the figure file, or be converted to outlines. (same URL as [1] above). Of course, the Helvetica fonts are amongst the Standard Adobe set, and are assumed to be available on any PostScript-capable rendering device/system (either in the official Adobe font-definition form, or as a simulacrum which can be evoked by the same name), so as a rule the issue of embedding fiont definitions does not arise. Therefore I am wondering whether [A] An EPS which simply uses Helvetica will be accepted by PLoS (the substitution of Arial being automatic, as an alias); or [B] One has to take special measures when preparing a diagram for PLoS using R in Linux when Arial is not available; or [C] One should proceed in quite a different way! Note: I am not keen on the PLoS preferred alternative of submitting a TIFF file, since this gives a bit-mapped result whicvh could render poorly. On the other hand, the Guidelines state (with resepct to LaTeX files): PLoS does not accept vector EPS figures generated using LaTeX. We only accept LaTeX generated figures in TIFF format. which suggests that vector-graphics formats (however generated) may not be acceptable anyway! I would very much welcome any guidance on these questions, especially from people with experience of publishing with PLoS who use R with Linux. With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 19-Nov-09 Time: 11:00:15 -- 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.
Re: [R] PLoS, Arial, R linux
Hello On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ted Harding ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: While there is a section (Enable the use of Arial in R) in the Guidelines (URL [2]), the instructions assume the presence of Arial .ttf files, not usually the case with Linux. If you have a Windows installation, then you have the appropriate license to use Arial, on Windows or on Linux. From what I remember, in this case it could be relatively easy to copy the font files on the Linux partition and install them. With some distributions it is possible to install MS fonts from a third-party source (on Debian ttf-mscorefonts-installer, on Gentoo some package also called corefonts). Regards Liviu __ 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.
Re: [R] PLoS, Arial, R linux
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.
Re: [R] PLoS, Arial, R linux
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.
