[Rd] OS X PDF bug (PR#13943)

[paul.m.mcguire.jr at att.net]

On Sep 7, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> My guess is quartz() and that this is nothing to do with R but with  
> copying in Mac OS X from a quartz() window.

Saving to a file from the quartz window also produces a PDF
that is viewable but not printable by Preview, and Acrobat too.

I suppose it could be the printer driver, though that means that R
is guilty of putting out some pretty exotic Postscript.  I'm hoping
someone else sees this or doesn't so I can pin it down.

Paul

>> par(mfrow=c(2,2))
>> y<-1:20
>> plot(y,  pch="+")
>> plot(y,  pch="+")
>> plot(y,  pch="+")
>> plot(y,  pch="+")
>>
>> produces a pdf that is viewable in Preview (copied from the
>> clipboard) but fails to print.
>>
>> pch default or ="." or =3 prints.
>>
>> Unfortunately pch=3 doesn't fix the mfrow=c(5,6) graph that I'm
>> actually trying to print,
>> so the bug lies somewhere deeper.
>
> Why not use pdf()?  That works for me (but then I don't have your  
> printer drivers).
>
>> OS X 10.4.11
>> R 2.9.2 GUI 1.29 Tiger build 32-bit (5464)
>> Laserjet 5MP
>>
>> Paul McGuire
>
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