[R] eps embedded fonts again

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Yury Yuryev wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I am sorry, I again rise that boring question about font embedding in
> EPS figure.

It gives us an opportunity to point you to the solution included in R 
2.4.0.

> I found some discussions on this topic but there were no strait solution.
>
> The publisher (AIP) demands submission of separate EPS file
> for each figure with all fonts embedded in it (even the standard
> 14 Adobe fonts).
>
> As I understand the R does not do this embedding. It inserts only
> comments what font resources are needed.

Yes, that's the EPS standard.

> Then I should use some other software to do this task. Is there a 
> solution for problem within open source environment (without using of 
> proprietary software)? My system is Debian GNU/Linux (testing).

ghostscript: see the R-News 6/2 article for an R wrapper function 
embedFonts() to help you with this.

> The second picture format that AIP journals accept is TIFF, but
> R has no tiff device to produce that pictures. Does someone know a strait way
> to convert the EPS file into the high resolution high quality TIFF figure?

ghostscript, ImageMagick.

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