From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Feb  9 08:32:27 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb  9 08:32:36 2005
Subject: [Rd] Linux: /usr/shar/doc/R-2.0.1/*.pdf all have bad fonts
	(PR#7677)
Message-ID: <20050209073227.1231EE403@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Please report this to the RPM provider: it is not true of R in general.
This is the R bug repository, not the CRAN error address.

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 bef@northwestern.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Bruce Foster
> Version: 2.0.1
> OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.105.110.38)
>
>
> All of the pdf files in /usr/share/doc/R-2.0.1 from the CRAN RedHat RPM have
> invalid fonts. A build from source yields the same problem.
>
> [root@wanda R-2.0.1]# ll *.pdf
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       259886 Nov 19 10:50 R-FAQ.pdf
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       127067 Nov 19 10:50 R-admin.pdf
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       143761 Nov 19 10:50 R-data.pdf
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       374269 Nov 19 10:50 R-exts.pdf
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       435252 Nov 19 10:50 R-intro.pdf
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       268142 Nov 19 10:50 R-lang.pdf
>
> The files are unreadable with xpdf and acroread, and pdf2ps shows this:
> [root@wanda R-2.0.1]# pdf2ps R-admin.pdf
> Error: /invalidfont in /F72
> Operand stack:
>   --dict:5/5(L)--   F72   20.659
> Execution stack:
>   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
> %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   2   1   29   --nostringval--
> %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   %array_continue   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
> --nostringval--   %loop_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>   --dict:1051/1123(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:92/200(L)--
> --dict:92/200(L)--   --dict:97/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:229/230(ro)(G)--
> --dict:19/24(L)--   --dict:4/6(L)--   --dict:23/31(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
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[Rd] Linux: /usr/shar/doc/R-2.0.1/*.pdf all have bad fonts (PR#7677)
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