[R] Font Encodings --- some work, some don't

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Are you talking about the pdf() device?  You never say so, but you do say

> The font encoding error does not appear in the postscript
> device driver, and it works fine.

This report is far too vague: what did you do and what reported the file 
was corrupt?  (Note that Acrobat reader is famous for mis-rendering
files which meet the Adobe PDF specification.)

Please do read the posting guide and restate your problem following the 
guidelines there.

Finally, I don't see any claim that arbitrary font encodings would produce 
a valid PDF file, so what did you read to suggest that?

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, ivo welch wrote:

>
> Dear R wizards:  I believe some more font encoding info. some of the
> font encodings work, others do not:  IsoLatin1, MacRoman, WinAnsi, and
> PDFDoc seem fine.  AdobeStd, AdobeSym, ISOLatin2, ISOLatin9, and
> TeXtext seem broken, in that the resulting output file is silently
> corrupt.  The font encoding error does not appear in the postscript
> device driver, and it works fine.  It would be nice if R gave an error
> message, instead of producing corrupt .pdf files.  Just a suggestion...
>
> Regards,
>
> /iaw
> ---
> ivo welch
>
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