[R] pdf font embedding --- again
Paul Murrell
p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Aug 30 01:49:38 CEST 2005
Hi
ivo_welch-rstat8303 at mailblocks.com wrote:
>
>
> Ooops. hit the button too soon. I have tried as arguments variation of
> the fonts and family arguments to postscript, such as getting the case
> right (i.e., lucida rather than Lucida). Alas
>
> > postscript(file="test.ps", fonts="lucida");
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000f7dfb8 ***
>
> this is under R 2.1.1, 2005-06-20, built under gentoo from scratch.
>
> so, the problem is probably now internal, not the commands. I guess I
> will now investigate glibc in a little more detail...
You might just be tickling the segfault you reported earlier (which
appears to happen [sometimes] when R cannot find the AFM files).
Try ...
afmfiles <- c("/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lubright/lbr.afm",
"/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lubright/lbd.afm",
"/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lubright/lbi.afm",
"/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lubright/lbdi.afm",
"/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/lubright/lbms.afm")
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Murrell <p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz>
> To: Paul Murrell <paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz>
> Cc: ivo_welch-rstat8303 at mailblocks.com; ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk;
> r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Sent: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:04:11 +1200
> Subject: Re: [R] pdf font embedding --- again
>
> Hi
>
> Paul Murrell wrote:
> > Hi
> > > I think there are two problems:
> > > (i) You are specifying the font incorrectly. Try ...
> > > # You might need to specify full paths to these
> > afmfiles <- c("lbr.afm", "lbd.afm", "lbi.afm", "lbdi.afm", "lbms.afm");
> > # Set up the mapping for "lucida" font family
> > postscriptFonts(lucida=postscriptFont("Lucida", metrics=afmfiles))
> > # Specify that the "lucida" font is to be used
> > postscript(file="test.ps", family="lucida");
>
> Thanks to Brian Ripley for pointing out that that should be ...
>
> postscript(file="test.ps", fonts="lucida");
>
> > l<- 40:80;
> > plot(l,l,pch=l);
> > dev.off();
> > > Should work for pdf() too.
> > > This should put a reference to the appropriate font in the
> PostScript or > PDF file that R creates.
> > > (ii) R does not embed font information. But you can, for example,
> use > ghostscript to do it, as long as you tell ghostscript about the
> font > too. You might have to set up a file 'FontMap' which looks
> something > like ...
> > > /Lucida (PATH_TO/lb___.pfb);
> > > ... (assuming that lb___.pfb is the name of the .pfb file for the
> Lucida > font). Then try something like (NOTE that you have to specify
>
>> GS_FONTPATH to tell ghostscript where your FontMap file is) ...
>
> > > GS_FONTPATH=PATH_TO_FontMap gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
>
>> -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=testembed.pdf test.pdf
>
> > > This should give you a file with the font info embedded and then
> you > should be able to include that in a LaTeX document.
> > > Paul
> > > p.s. Thanks for the segfault report. I will look at why that is
> happening.
> > > > ivo_welch-rstat8303 at mailblocks.com wrote:
> > >> Thank you---as always.
> >>
> >> still, I remain font-desparate.
> >>
> >> I would love to use the fonts from my book, but [a] I cannot figure
> >> out how to do this yet even in the R postscript device; and [b] I am
> >> using the R pdf device, not the postscript device. I guess if I can
> >> solve [a], then I can rewrite all my graphics creations now into the
> >> postscript device, and replace the dev.off() with something that >>
> follows it with ps2pdf. The following attempt, however, does not work:
> >>
> >> afmfiles <- c("lbr.afm", "lbd.afm", "lbi.afm", "lbdi.afm", >>
> "lbms.afm");
> >> Lucida <- postscriptFont("Lucida", metrics=afmfiles);
> >> postscript(file="test.ps", family=Lucida);
> >> l<- 40:80;
> >> plot(l,l,pch=l);
> >> dev.off();
> >>
> >> By the way, if I try " postscript(family=afmfiles);" then I do not
> >> get an R error, but R 2.1.0 segfaults, which is probably not >>
> desirable. This occurs even if there is no .afm file in the current >>
> directory.
> >>
> >>
> >> Can I make a suggestion to the R team? It would be nice if I could
> >> specify a pdf() device parameter that says "choose font settings to
> >> embed all fonts" (i.e., do not use fonts that cannot be embedded, >>
> either). Something that guarantees me that I get a figure that I can >>
> give to someone that is fully specified. Right now, accomplishing >>
> this is not easy to figure out, and perhaps not even possible. Yes, >>
> in the list of font families that R recognizes are some fonts that do >>
> not seem among the 13 standard fonts (such as URWbookman). moreover, >>
> if I choose it as my pdf font family, it is smart enough to use a >>
> different symbol file ('StandardSymL'), which I hope is also open and >>
> not adobe. If so, they could be used in principle. How do I get R to >>
> embed URWbookman? ZapfDingbats always seems to be included, so I hope >>
> this is open and embeddable.
> >>
> >> more help would be highly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> /iaw
> >> ---
> >> ivo welch
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> >> To: ivo_welch-rstat8303 at mailblocks.com
> >> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >> Sent: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:07:14 +0100 (BST)
> >> Subject: Re: [R] pdf font embedding --- again
> >>
> >> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 ivo_welch-rstat8303 at mailblocks.com wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > dear R wizards--- I would like to do some book-on-demand printing
>
>>> at a
>>
> >> > popular printer named lulu, but lulu requires inclusion even of the
> >> > basic postscript fonts. Interestingly, my book itself does not need
> >> > the 14 base acrobat fonts, only the embedded R figures do. Of course,
> >> > I really would like to get pdftex to embed the fonts, but how to do
> >> > this is not obvious either. [This method seems to be what the R help
> >> > page is indicating... The software including the PostScript plot file
> >> > should either embed the font outlines (usually from '.pfb' or '.pfa'
> >> > files) or use DSC comments to instruct the print spooler to do so.)
> >>
> >> Why not use the fonts your book does use in the figures? (That's how
> >> my books are done.)
> >>
> >> > So, I would really, really like to embed the necessary fonts with
>
>>> the R
>>
> >> > figures. I first reread the discussion in this mailing list about
> >> > (eps) font embedding earlier this year. This was ultimately not very
> >> > helpful. First, I do not know how to instruct my embedding program to
> >> > include the fonts that R figures want. Second, I already start with
> >> > the pdf device, so distilling eps files is not a good option--and it
> >> > would seem a bit crazy to first use the wrong output device
> >> > (postscript), then ship my files over to a windows machine somewhere
> >> > that has distiller installed, run distiller by hand, then ftp them
> >> back
> >> > to my linux machine---just for getting the fonts embedded.
> >> >
> >> > Is it impossible to get R to embed the necessary fonts in its pdf
> >> > output?
> >>
> >> Yes, as it has no access to them. They are not Open Source. You may
>
>>> be able to use URW clones, depending on their licensing conditions.
>>
> >>
> >> -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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Dr Paul Murrell
Department of Statistics
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
64 9 3737599 x85392
paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/
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