PLoS, Arial, R & linux
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Ted Harding
<Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
Greetings All. According to the PLoS (Public Library of Science) Guidelines for Figure preparation, if a figure is submitted as EPS rather than TIFF then "Figure text must be in Arial font" -- see: [1] http://www.plosntds.org/static/figureGuidelines.action#text and also other sections in that web-page [2] http://www.plosntds.org/static/figureGuidelines.action Now, Arial font is not (as a rule) available in Linux, and EPS diagrams prepared using R graphics will call for Helvetica (by default). Of course the Helvetica family is very similar to Arial, but the in-file font references will call for Helvetica so a production system which is expecting calls for Arial may be thrown off the rails by an EPS file which calls for Helvetica. While there is a section ("Enable the use of Arial in R") in the
The fact that there is such a section suggests that they accept the resulting files, doesn't it?
Guidelines (URL [2]), the instructions assume the presence of Arial ".ttf" files, not usually the case with Linux.
But easy enough to fix (completely legally, thanks to a licensing oversight by Microsoft): http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ In Debian (and I assume Ubuntu): $ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts -Deepayan [...]