This is the same as PR#10403. See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-November/047352.html
which links to a workaround: it has long been fixed in R-patched. On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Claudio Lupi > Version: 2.6.0 > OS: Windows XP > Submission from: (NULL) (85.18.14.35) > > > Try the following: > > xy <- matrix(rnorm(20),10,2) > plot(xy) > savePlot("c:/xy", type="pdf") > savePlot("c:/xy", type="eps") > > This used to work fine with previous R versions. Instead, with R 2.6.0 I get: > >> xy <- matrix(rnorm(20),10,2) >> plot(xy) >> savePlot("c:/xy", type="pdf") > Error in savePlot("c:/xy", type = "pdf") : Invalid font type > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: In savePlot("c:/xy", type = "pdf") : > font family not found in PostScript font database > 2: In savePlot("c:/xy", type = "pdf") : > font family not found in PostScript font database >> savePlot("c:/xy", type="eps") > Error in savePlot("c:/xy", type = "eps") : Invalid font type > In addition: Warning messages: > 1: In savePlot("c:/xy", type = "eps") : > font family not found in PostScript font database > 2: In savePlot("c:/xy", type = "eps") : > font family not found in PostScript font database >> > > savePlot works fine with type = "bmp". > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel