[R] problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 8/31/2006 10:40 PM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote:
> > I installed GSView and the file opens correctly and the output is as is
> > should be. As you suggest, this must be a bug in Adobe CS2 Illustrator
> > and Photoshop.
> 
> It could conceivably still be our bug, but I'd like to hear what Adobe tech
> support says about it.

I tried this in gs 8.53 (which is what GSView calls), Adobe Distiller 
7.0.7 and Photoshop CS2 (9.0.2).  The first two were fine.  CS2 said it 
did not have the fonts used (which might actually be true, if surprising) 
and changed the font of the labels, but converted everything else fine.

So is it possible that you have CS2 set to suppress unknown fonts (I have 
not looked even to see if it is possible)?

I think importing .ps into Illustrator is known to be iffy, and I have 
seen the recommendation to first distill to PDF and then import (so in R 
you could save directly to PDF).


> > > x <- 10*(1:nrow(volcano))
> > >      y <- 10*(1:ncol(volcano))
> > >      image(x, y, volcano, col = terrain.colors(100), axes = FALSE)
> > >      contour(x, y, volcano, levels = seq(90, 200, by = 5),
> > >              add = TRUE, col = "peru")
> > >      axis(1, at = seq(100, 800, by = 100))
> > >      axis(2, at = seq(100, 600, by = 100))
> > >      box()
> > >      title(main = "Maunga Whau Volcano", font.main = 4)

[Run on Windows, use 'Save as' to postscript.]


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