Re: [R] [Follow-up] Re: PLoS, Arial, R & linux

2009-11-19 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Also see of the journal will let you use NimbusSan: pdf('my.pdf', onefile=FALSE, pointsize=18, family="NimbusSan",height=6,width=8,paper="special") ... dev.off() embedFonts('my.pdf') Frank Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 19 November 2009 at 13:00, (Ted Harding) wrote: | However, | (a) I do not

Re: [R] [Follow-up] Re: PLoS, Arial, R & linux

2009-11-19 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ted Harding wrote: > See Addendum at end. [...] > 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 .

Re: [R] [Follow-up] Re: PLoS, Arial, R & linux

2009-11-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/19/09, Ted Harding wrote: > However, > (a) I do not have the 'ttf2afm' program; > (b) Synaptic cannot find it in the repositories. > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=ttf2afm&mode=exactfilename&suite=testing&arch=any Liviu _

[R] [Follow-up] Re: PLoS, Arial, R & linux

2009-11-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 November 2009 at 13:00, (Ted Harding) wrote: | However, | (a) I do not have the 'ttf2afm' program; | (b) Synaptic cannot find it in the repositories. | | So, I'm off on another hunt! i) You should try to get over the 'Synaptic is the only interface to package' syndrome. It limits yo

[R] [Follow-up] Re: PLoS, Arial, R & linux

2009-11-19 Thread Ted Harding
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 >> wrote: >>> Greetings All. >>> According to the PLoS (Public Library of Science) Guidelines >>> for Figure preparation, if a figure is s