pdf font embedding --- again
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 ivo_welch-rstat8303 at mailblocks.com wrote:
dear R wizards--- I would like to do some book-on-demand printing at a popular printer named lulu, but lulu requires inclusion even of the basic postscript fonts. Interestingly, my book itself does not need the 14 base acrobat fonts, only the embedded R figures do. Of course, I really would like to get pdftex to embed the fonts, but how to do this is not obvious either. [This method seems to be what the R help page is indicating... The software including the PostScript plot file should either embed the font outlines (usually from '.pfb' or '.pfa' files) or use DSC comments to instruct the print spooler to do so.)
Why not use the fonts your book does use in the figures? (That's how my books are done.)
So, I would really, really like to embed the necessary fonts with the R figures. I first reread the discussion in this mailing list about (eps) font embedding earlier this year. This was ultimately not very helpful. First, I do not know how to instruct my embedding program to include the fonts that R figures want. Second, I already start with the pdf device, so distilling eps files is not a good option--and it would seem a bit crazy to first use the wrong output device (postscript), then ship my files over to a windows machine somewhere that has distiller installed, run distiller by hand, then ftp them back to my linux machine---just for getting the fonts embedded. Is it impossible to get R to embed the necessary fonts in its pdf output?
Yes, as it has no access to them. They are not Open Source. You may be able to use URW clones, depending on their licensing conditions.
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at 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