Hi Agnes, I converted the Arial font files from ttf to afm using ttf2afm from MikTex complete installation.
When used in R with the line recommended by Plos, they seem to give correct Arial font graphics: I checked by opening the ps file with a viewer (gsview), a text editor (notepad++) and Adobe illustrator. However I did not try (but hopefully will do soon) the ultimate test: submission to Plos. Here is a way to do it: (Mind the trick at step 5) 1) Download ttf2afm.exe (available for ex in the install directory of MikTex complete installation) 2) Fetch the arial ttf files in C:\Windows\Fonts 3) Place ttf2afm.exe and the ttf files in a directory (eg C:/ttf2afm/) 4) Open a DOS window (using cmd). Place yourself into the created directory (using cd). Then type ttf2afm.exe arial.ttf > arial.afm ttf2afm.exe arialbd.ttf > arial-Bold.afm ttf2afm.exe ariali.ttf > arial-Oblique.afm ttf2afm.exe arialbi.ttf > arial-BoldOblique.afm 5) Now, if you used ttf2afm.exe from MikTex you should open the created afm files with a text editor (ex Notepad++) and correct the following things: • Remove the copyright line (or make it start zith comment and get rid of the (c) copyright symbol ) • At the beginning of 4 of the first lines, the variable name is missing, so add it. Eg in arial.afm: o FontName ArialMT o FullName Arial o FamilyName Arial o Weight Normal Now you can use these fonts with the postscript function in R with the following line: postscript(file="try.ps", horizontal=F, onefile=F, width=4, height=4, pointsize=12, family=c ( “C:/ttf2afm/arial.afm", “C:/ttf2afm/arial-Bold.afm ", “C:/ttf2afm/arial-Oblique.afm ", “C:/ttf2afm/arial-BoldOblique.afm " ) ) hist( rnorm(100) ) dev.off() Cheers, Camille -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to-enable-Arial-font-for-postcript-pdf-figure-on-Windows-tp3017809p3081774.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
