Thanks for the reply. My bad on the forgetting to post my OS and other minimum information. I'll make sure to review it before I post next time.
I've turned it to plain text in my gmail hopefully that circumvents the html issue. Fong On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fong Chun Chan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've been searching around the web and I found this thread which discusses >> exactly the same problem that I am facing when using Cairo on my Mac. When > > Oh you are using a Mac! You failed to say that in > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-October/293119.html > (and you are still not giving the 'at a minimum' information required in the > posting guide). > >> I use the following code: >> >> library(Cairo) >> Cairo(file='cairo_created', type='pdf', dpi=100) >> plot(1:10) >> dev.off() >> >> This produces a pdf with the text italicized. The same code but using pdf() >> as the graphics device: >> >> pdf(file='pdf_created.pdf') >> plot(1:10) >> dev.off() >> >> Creates a text without italics. According to Simon, a work around could be >> achieved by doing the following: >> >> CairoFonts("Arial:style >> =Regular","Arial:style=Bold","Arial:style=Italic","Helvetica","Symbol") >> >> But from my understanding this just replaces the Helvetica font with the >> Arial font. Is there a solution that works if I still want to use >> Helvetica? > > Well, you already told us one: use pdf(). > > You could also use R's built-in cairo_pdf() device (which has some bug fixes > not in the Cairo package). > >> Thanks, >> >> Fong >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > It also asked you not to send HTML. > > -- > 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-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
