On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, ivo welch wrote:
> [a] I believe that the pdf device does not yet fully support
> TeXencoding. (under R-2.2.0, the pdf file created with Textext as font
> encoding still dies when post-processed by ghostscript.) are there any
> workarounds, or are there utilities that would allow a TeXencoded font
> to be re-encoded/converted into ISOLatin, perhaps, which R could then
> handle beautifully?
1) What does `dies' mean?
2) See the following R-patched NEWS entry
o pdf() was not writing details of the encoding to the file
correctly. (Spotted by Alexey Shipunov in Russian encodings.)
so this may well be solved in current R (R-patched/R-devel).
> [b] is there a way to use an arbitrary postscript font and position it
> into a ps or pdf graphic (i.e., without it being in the family {5 fonts}
> that I am using for the main drawing)? in a weird latex/R mix, my
> intent is something like
Yes, see par(family=) and (in 2.2.x) ?postscriptFont to create a family.
> pdf(file="test.pdf");
> plot( c(0,1),c(0,1) );
> test.font = fontis("postscriptfont.pfb"); # may need a tfm
> specification, too?
> text( 0.5, 0.5, fontobject("some text", test.font));
> dev.off();
>
> help would be highly appreciated, as always.
This area is all under development as we allow for CJK fonts. In R-devel,
something like
myfam <- Type1Font("test", rep("postscriptfont.afm"), 4)
pdf(file="test.pdf", fonts=myfam)
plot( c(0,1),c(0,1) )
text( 0.5, 0.5, "some text", family=myfam)
dev.off()
will work (and with amendments if this is a TeX-encoded font).
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