[Rd] wish: postscript-device - LaTeX ec-fonts (PR#1322)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

First you need to get postscript Type 1 versions of the EC fonts.
For a long time there were none available.  There is now the CM-Super
font package, which is 55Mb in size and so not in the standard TeX
distributions (it's much larger than they are).

If you do have them, postscript() already has the ability to use new font
families, so all you have to do is to make use of it.

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 stud8351@ma.tum.de wrote:

> Full_Name: Christof Boeckler
> Version: 1.4.1
> OS: linux 2.4, x86
> Submission from: (NULL) (217.233.100.207)
>
>
> Hello R-gurus,
>
> I have a little contribution to the wishlist:
>
> Since (?) I am using the more recent ec-font-family with LaTeX instead of the
> original cm-family, I did not manage to use this new feature about using (TeX's)
> cm-fonts for PS-output. I got the following errors when trying to use such a
> file:
>
> dvips: Font CMR10 used in file fig.eps is not in the mapping file.
> dvips: Font CMBX10 used in file fig.eps is not in the mapping file.
> dvips: Font CMSL10 used in file fig.eps is not in the mapping file.
> dvips: Font CMBXSL10 used in file fig.eps is not in the mapping file.
> dvips: Font CMSY10 used in file fig.eps is not in the mapping file.
> dvips: Font CMBSY10 used in file fig.eps is not in the mapping file.
> dvips: Font CMMI10 used in file fig.eps is not in the mapping file.
>
> Does anyone know what went wrong?

Yes. You don't have the CM type 1 fonts installed (or not installed so
dvips can use them).   I don't know why you think R-bugs is an appropriate
forum for dvips problems, though.

> Under these circumstances, is it possible to
> use this feature at all? If not, I would be happy to see that feature in a
> future version of R.

It's already there.

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