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.