To whom it may concern,
I am e-mailing you concerning the use of Arial Font in the program R and I
am using a mac.
I am trying to create graphs in R and the publisher I wish to publish an
article with needs the font to be Arial. I have tried looking around to find
out how to do this with no luck and must help on the topic is geared towards
Linux users - the only help available is from the PLoS ONE site:
Enable the use of Arial in R
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 do the following in R:
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)
hist(rnorm(100))
dev.off()
However, I do not have the above files and do not know where to get them.
Many thanks,
D. M
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