Saving Graphics File as .ps or .pdf (PR#10403)

Maybe, but given the way things have been working lately, it might be
better to emphasize

(a) check the mailinglists
(b) try R-patched
(c) if in doubt, ask, rather than report as bug

(Ideally, people would try the prerelease versions and problems like
this would be caught before the actual release, but it seems that they
prefer treating x.y.0 as a beta release...)

On 11/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Simone Giannerini wrote:

I looked at the list of bug fixes before writing and I found that the
only thing close to it is this

o     postscript() was not always ignoring .Postscript.Options in
      the workspace (where it should not have occurred).

but I must admit I did not understand whether it had anything to do
with this bug report.

It occurs on Windows only, and the src/gnuwin32/CHANGES file says

BUG FIXES

     o   Saving a plot to Postscript or PDF required the font database
         to have been initialized: this is now done if necessary.

See also

https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-October/142414.html

(over a month ago).

Thanks

Simone

On 11/6/07, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:

This has been reported several times before and has been fixed in
R-patched some weeks ago.

Uwe Ligges


Jane_Harvill at Baylor.Edu wrote:

Full_Name: Jane L. Harvill
Version: 2.6.0
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
Submission from: (NULL) (129.62.21.93)


PROBLEM: The ability to save the contents of an R Graphics window as a
postscript or PDf file through the drop-down menu (File -> Save As ->
Postscript, or File -> Save As -> PDF) results in the error message below being
printed to the R Console.

ERROR MESSAGE:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Error: Invalid font type
In addition: Warning messages:
1: font family not found in PostScript font database
2: font family not found in PostScript font database
-----------------------------------------------------------------

TO RECREATE THE PROBLEM:
1.  Using the R Console, create some graph in R; for example, plot(rnorm(100)).
2.  Select File -> Save As -> PostScript  (or File -> Save As -> PDF).
3.  Supply a file name and click the "Save" button.

FOUR OTHER RELEVANT NOTES:
1.  I checked to see if the same error results when invoking the functions
pdf(file=...) or postscript(file=...).   No error results, and the content of
the output (.ps or .pdf) file produces a duplicate of what appears in the R
Graphics window.

2.  I checked, but did not see any other bug reports in the system that are
relevant to this problem.

3.  Before I submitted this R Bug Report, I reinstalled the PostScript fonts,
and then reinstalled R Version 2.6.0.  This did not change the outcome.

4.  This problem did not exist in previous versions of R on any of my computers.
 It exists on all computers for version 2.6.0 of R.

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