Dear R wizards: I believe some more font encoding info. some of the font encodings work, others do not: IsoLatin1, MacRoman, WinAnsi, and PDFDoc seem fine. AdobeStd, AdobeSym, ISOLatin2, ISOLatin9, and TeXtext seem broken, in that the resulting output file is silently corrupt. The font encoding error does not appear in the postscript device driver, and it works fine. It would be nice if R gave an error message, instead of producing corrupt .pdf files. Just a suggestion... Regards, /iaw --- ivo welch
Font Encodings --- some work, some don't
2 messages · ivo welch, Brian Ripley
Are you talking about the pdf() device? You never say so, but you do say
The font encoding error does not appear in the postscript device driver, and it works fine.
This report is far too vague: what did you do and what reported the file was corrupt? (Note that Acrobat reader is famous for mis-rendering files which meet the Adobe PDF specification.) Please do read the posting guide and restate your problem following the guidelines there. Finally, I don't see any claim that arbitrary font encodings would produce a valid PDF file, so what did you read to suggest that?
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, ivo welch wrote:
Dear R wizards: I believe some more font encoding info. some of the font encodings work, others do not: IsoLatin1, MacRoman, WinAnsi, and PDFDoc seem fine. AdobeStd, AdobeSym, ISOLatin2, ISOLatin9, and TeXtext seem broken, in that the resulting output file is silently corrupt. The font encoding error does not appear in the postscript device driver, and it works fine. It would be nice if R gave an error message, instead of producing corrupt .pdf files. Just a suggestion... Regards, /iaw --- ivo welch
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