On Do, 21 Feb 2008, manu wrote:
> Can't they be mapped to Nimbus or something else?

Of course they can be mapped, but if the dvi file calls for Helvetica it
calls for Helvetica.

> Also, R is a GNU project, I cannot believe they ship commercial fonts or 
> encourage their use.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/r/R.html

They don't *ship* commercial fonts, they just reference them.

> At the very least, R could be patched to use a free-font as default.

Not up to me.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>        Vienna University of Technology
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Font Helvetica is not in the mapping file.
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