[Rd] inconsistent fonts generated in postscript file (PR#7795)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please DO READ the documentation.

Rdevga applies to *windows* devices: see its help page.
On Windows, saving to JPEG or PNG is using a windows device.

The way fonts are chosen in postscript() is described on its help page. It 
is *definitely* using not Arial but Helvetica, even though your viewer 
might do a substitution.

There is a section in the FAQ on BUGS.  Had you read it, you could have 
avoided wasting our time.  Or even if you had read ?postscript.


On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 xiangli at gila-fw.bioengr.uic.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Xiang Li
> Version: 2.01
> OS: WinXP
> Submission from: (NULL) (128.248.174.125)
>
>
> I am trying to use the font of "TT Courier New: bold" to get the equal 
> size of letters. The "TT Courier New: bold" is the 11th font listed in 
> the Rdevga file.
>
> You can just try a simple case:
>
> plot(1:10, 1:10, xlab = "XILMV", font.lab = 11)
>
> I save the plot in postscript format, and found the font in .ps file 
> becomes Arial font. While I save the plot in JPEG or PNG format, 
> everything is correct.

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