On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:08 +0000, Brian D Ripley wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Gavin Simpson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:21 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>>>> "TZ" == T Zumbrunn <t.zumbr...@unibas.ch>
> >>>>>>> on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:52:37 +0100 writes:
> >>
> >> TZ> Quoting Brian D Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>:
> >> >> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Robin Hankin wrote:
<snip />
>
> > I'd be happy to patch any/all of those sources if someone in R Core
> > would be willing to take a lot and possibly apply them?
>
> Send them to me and I'll take a look.
Thanks Brian,
Attached is a patch to pdf.Rd against the SVN trunk, revision 47685,
which modifies the emphasis in the useDingbats argument and adds
information about the workaround on unix systems only. Please edit/use
as you see fit.
If this is sufficient to document the issue and workaround I won't patch
R-admin.texi as there doesn't appear to be anywhere suitable to insert
this note in that file - most platform specific information appears to
pertain to /building/ R not tweaking your system to work around a
problem whilst using R.
In case the attachment gets mangled somewhere on long the line, you can
grab the patch from:
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/files/pdf.Rd.patch
All the best,
Gavin
>
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > G
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> >>> le112:~/scratch/R-2.8.1% R --vanilla --quiet
> >> >>>> pdf(file='~/f.pdf')
> >> >>>> plot(1:10 , pch=1)
> >> >>>> dev.off()
> >> >>> null device
> >> >>> 1
> >> >>>> sessionInfo()
> >> >>> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> >> >>> i686-pc-linux-gnu
> >> >>>
> >> >>> locale:
> >> >>>
> >> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >> >>>
> >> >>> attached base packages:
> >> >>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
> >> >>> base > q()
> >> >>> le112:~/scratch/R-2.8.1%
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Robin K. S. Hankin
> >> >>> Uncertainty Analyst
> >> >>> University of Cambridge
> >> >>> 19 Silver Street
> >> >>> Cambridge CB3 9EP
> >> >>> 01223-764877
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ______________________________________________
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> >> >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >> >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
> >> >> 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
> >> >>
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> >> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
> >> TZ> ______________________________________________
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> >> TZ> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
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Index: ../src/library/grDevices/man/pdf.Rd
===================================================================
--- ../src/library/grDevices/man/pdf.Rd (revision 47685)
+++ ../src/library/grDevices/man/pdf.Rd (working copy)
@@ -70,8 +70,13 @@
\code{"cmyk"}. Defaults to \code{"rgb"}.}
\item{useDingbats}{logical. Should small circles be rendered
\emph{via} the Dingbats font? Defaults to true, which produces
- smaller and better output -- this is provided for those who insist
- on using broken PDF viewers.}
+ smaller and better output. Setting this to false, whilst producing
+ larger output, can work around font display problems in broken PDF
+ viewers.
+#ifdef unix
+ See Note below for a system-wide fix.
+#endif
+ }
\item{useKerning}{logical. Should kerning corrections be included in
setting text and calculating string widths? Defaults to \code{TRUE}.}
}
@@ -202,6 +207,23 @@
be needed for the full use of encodings other than Latin-1. See
\url{http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html} for
Reader 5.x to 8.x, and Updates on \url{http://www.adobe.com} for 9.x.
+
+#ifdef unix
+ On some systems the default plotting character \code{pch = 1} is
+ displayed in some PDF viewers incorrectly as a \code{"q"}
+ character. This may be due to incorrect or incomplete mapping of font
+ names to those used by the system.
+
+ The following may be added to
+ \file{\eqn{\mbox{\textasciitilde}}{~}/.fonts.conf} or
+ \file{/etc/fonts/local.conf} to work around this problem.
+ \preformatted{
+<alias binding="same">
+ <family>ZapfDingbats</family>
+ <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept>
+</alias>
+ }
+#endif
}
\seealso{
\code{\link{pdfFonts}}, \code{\link{pdf.options}},
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