[Rd] Saving Graphics File as .ps or .pdf (PR#10403)

[Simone Giannerini]

I looked at the list of bug fixes before writing and I found that the
only thing close to it is this

 o	postscript() was not always ignoring .Postscript.Options in
	the workspace (where it should not have occurred).

but I must admit I did not understand whether it had anything to do
with this bug report.

Thanks

Simone

On 11/6/07, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> This has been reported several times before and has been fixed in
> R-patched some weeks ago.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> Jane_Harvill at Baylor.Edu wrote:
> > Full_Name: Jane L. Harvill
> > Version: 2.6.0
> > OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
> > Submission from: (NULL) (129.62.21.93)
> >
> >
> > PROBLEM: The ability to save the contents of an R Graphics window as a
> > postscript or PDf file through the drop-down menu (File -> Save As ->
> > Postscript, or File -> Save As -> PDF) results in the error message below being
> > printed to the R Console.
> >
> > ERROR MESSAGE:
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Error: Invalid font type
> > In addition: Warning messages:
> > 1: font family not found in PostScript font database
> > 2: font family not found in PostScript font database
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > TO RECREATE THE PROBLEM:
> > 1.  Using the R Console, create some graph in R; for example, plot(rnorm(100)).
> > 2.  Select File -> Save As -> PostScript  (or File -> Save As -> PDF).
> > 3.  Supply a file name and click the "Save" button.
> >
> > FOUR OTHER RELEVANT NOTES:
> > 1.  I checked to see if the same error results when invoking the functions
> > pdf(file=...) or postscript(file=...).   No error results, and the content of
> > the output (.ps or .pdf) file produces a duplicate of what appears in the R
> > Graphics window.
> >
> > 2.  I checked, but did not see any other bug reports in the system that are
> > relevant to this problem.
> >
> > 3.  Before I submitted this R Bug Report, I reinstalled the PostScript fonts,
> > and then reinstalled R Version 2.6.0.  This did not change the outcome.
> >
> > 4.  This problem did not exist in previous versions of R on any of my computers.
> >  It exists on all computers for version 2.6.0 of R.
> >
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