quartz bug?
A bug in the Mac OS perhaps, or an interaction between the Mac OS and HP Printers. I had someone tell me a Brother printer worked with the files I posted. Thanks. At least I know more now. -Dave
On Oct 16, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
pdf() is not involved when you save from a quartz() device. There certainly is a difference, a completely different R graphics device involving MacOS system calls is used by quartz(). On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, David Airey wrote:
I'm having problems printing a PDF via LaTeX that was created in R for OS X (latest versions). The package that created the files was akima; that's probably irrelevant. I can't print the PDFs from Preview when they are in a LaTeX generated PDF, although I can print them in their original form. The files are temporarily at http://public.me.com/dairey in the bad_pdf directory. I'm printing to an HP Laserjet (1320). The PS error is complaining about ArialMT as far as I can tell. But when I read help for quartz(), the top of the help file says, family this is the family name of the font that will be used by the device. Default "Helvetica". and the bottom of the help file says, The default font family is Arial. So which is it? And why when I use quartz.options(family="Arial", reset=TRUE), do quartz() devices not respect my command? All resulting graphs still look like Helvetica. Could this be the problem with printing PDFs? Why is the GUI preferences for changing the font there but one cannot alter the font?
I wrote the above earlier. Turns out, when I save a PDF from the quartz device, and include it in a latex document, I get a memory full error associated with definefont postscript command. If I make the PDF using the pdf() function, I get no error from printing the figures in latex. So I think there is some kind of bug/difference between saving a PDF from the quartz() device and creating a PDF using pdf(). Also, I note that the figures are not quite rendered exactly the same.
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