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. Best Xiang
inconsistent fonts generated in postscript file (PR#7795)
3 messages · xiang li, Brian Ripley, Peter Dalgaard
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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xiangli@gila-fw.bioengr.uic.edu writes:
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.
It's not a device independent font so you cannot expect it to be copied between devices. Look at the help page for postscript().
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