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problem with pdf() on Mac Os X

3 messages · guillaume allain, Brian Ripley, Don MacQueen

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Hello R helpers,

I am quite new as a R user, and even more on a Mac Os. I am running R 
under Emacs 21.3.30.5 through ESS.

I have some problems with the pdf() device :  when sent to it, plots 
don't come out with any
labels, titles or whatever written. I don't have that problem when 
plots are sent to X11 or postscript devices.

As pdf is the native format on Mac Os X, i find it sad to have to go 
through .ps then .pdf using ps2pdf... Here's my R version

platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8
arch     powerpc
os       darwin6.8
system   powerpc, darwin6.8
status
major    2
minor    0.1
year     2004
month    11
day      15
language R
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Guillaume Allain
Carte Blanche Conseil
47 rue de Lancry 75010
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There is an R-sig-mac list for MacOS-specific questions.

Do check that it is the pdf file and not your viewer that is giving the 
problem.  Many similar reports have been traced to faulty PDF viewers.
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, guillaume allain wrote:

            

  
    
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I had this problem last fall. It went away after a while, and I 
believe the "fix" was an OS version upgrade.
Later, I was sending PDF files created with R to a colleague. When I 
viewed them, the labels were there.
When he viewed them on his computer, they were not displayed. He 
upgraded his OS, after which they
were displayed.

Here is my version information, and note that I have a later version 
of the OS (10.3.8).
_                       
platform powerpc-apple-darwin6.8.5
arch     powerpc                 
os       darwin6.8.5             
system   powerpc, darwin6.8.5    
status                           
major    2                       
minor    0.1                     
year     2004                    
month    11                      
day      15
language R

-Don
At 9:43 AM +0100 3/24/05, guillaume allain wrote: