Problem with national characters in main, xlab, ylab with pdf{grDevices} / postscript {grDevices}
'National': not my nation, and none is stated. Somewhere in Eastern Europe ... Poland? Short answer: you need to use a family which contains those glyphs (try family='NimbusSan': the default 'Helvetica' does not) *and* a viewer that uses fonts that do. Longer answer: read ?pdf and ?postscript carefully, as they told you this and more. Your example works correctly with that family for me on Linux, but not with OS X viewers. It does not with the default family. For people on Unix I would suggest the cairo_pdf() device as a possibly easier alternative since it usually embeds fonts. On Windows and OS X you are at the mercy of what fonts cairo has access to. That's all in the help, too.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2012, Magdalena A. Tkacz wrote:
Hello.
I'm trying to make some graphics with nationalized labels (pdf for use
in LaTeX document).
On console (displayed on screen) using all looks ok:
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data<-rnorm(100)
hist(data,main='Rozk?ad g?sto?ci punkt?w', xlab='Warto?? na osi y',
ylab='Cz?sto?? wyst?powania')
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But using:
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data<-rnorm(100)
pdf('plik.pdf',encoding="CP1250.enc")
hist(data,main='Rozk?ad g?sto?ci punkt?w', xlab='Warto?? na osi y',
ylab='Cz?sto?? wyst?powania')
dev.off()
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It does not look fine ...
Actually it is just a binary file, and no viewer has been mentioned.
Without specifying encoding:
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pdf('plik-wo-enc.pdf')
hist(data,main='Rozk?ad g?sto?ci punkt?w', xlab='Warto?? na osi y',
ylab='Cz?sto?? wyst?powania')
dev.off()
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Almost does not have national characters. (Almost, because "?" letter appears)
Exemplary pdf file are here:
https://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/shareID10318887/fileID1167942261/plik.pdf
https://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/shareID10318887/fileID1167945977/plik-wo-enc.pdf
I have read "Non-Standard Fonts in PostScript and PDF Graphics" by
Paul Murrell and Brian Ripley in Rnews.
I have also tried option with
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Sys.setlocale(category="LC_CTYPE", locale="pl_PL.utf8")
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but even in admin (run R as admin) in Win7 I received warning:
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"In Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_CTYPE", locale = "pl_PL.utf8") :
??dania raport?w OS aby ustawi? lokalizacj? na "pl_PL.utf8" nie mog?
zosta? wykonane"
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(translated in short : OS report request to set locale to "pl_PL.utf8"
can not be done)
Does anyone knows how to obtain pdf documents with acceptable quality?
Thanks in advance,
Regards
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