From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Apr 15 08:43:25 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri Apr 15 08:43:50 2005
Subject: [Rd] inconsistent fonts generated in postscript file (PR#7795)
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Please DO READ the documentation.

Rdevga applies to *windows* devices: see its help page.
On Windows, saving to JPEG or PNG is using a windows device.

The way fonts are chosen in postscript() is described on its help page. It 
is *definitely* using not Arial but Helvetica, even though your viewer 
might do a substitution.

There is a section in the FAQ on BUGS.  Had you read it, you could have 
avoided wasting our time.  Or even if you had read ?postscript.


On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 xiangli@gila-fw.bioengr.uic.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Xiang Li
> Version: 2.01
> OS: WinXP
> Submission from: (NULL) (128.248.174.125)
>
>
> I am trying to use the font of "TT Courier New: bold" to get the equal 
> size of letters. The "TT Courier New: bold" is the 11th font listed in 
> the Rdevga file.
>
> You can just try a simple case:
>
> plot(1:10, 1:10, xlab = "XILMV", font.lab = 11)
>
> I save the plot in postscript format, and found the font in .ps file 
> becomes Arial font. While I save the plot in JPEG or PNG format, 
> everything is correct.

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[Rd] inconsistent fonts generated in postscript file (PR#7795)
Prof Brian Ripley