I had been looking for information about including OSX fonts in R
plots for a long time and never quite found the answer. I spent an
hour or so gathering together the following solution which, as far as
I have tested, works. I'm posting this for feedback and and
archiving. I'd be interested in any caveats about the brittleness of
the technique.
Thanks.
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1. Find font
system font path: /Library/Fonts/
2. Extract ttf (if necessary) with fondu [http://fondu.sourceforge.net/]
eg, fondu -force Optima.dfont
3. ttf2asm for each ttf file, stripping the Copyright and warning
3. copy files to
RHOME/library/grDevices/afm
(usually,
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/library/grDevices/afm
)
4. R code to use the font; eg,
newfont=
Type1Font("Optima",c("OptimaRegular.afm","OptimaBold.afm","OptimaItalic.afm","OptimaBoldItalic.afm"))
pdf("newfont.pdf",version = "1.4",family=newfont)
plot(rnorm,col="red")
dev.off()
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