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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