[R] Should this PDF render correctly without font embedding?

[(Ted Harding)]

On 24-Jul-08 20:29:09, Jeffrey Horner wrote:
> A professor here at Vanderbilt sent me the following code. Each of the 
> text strings should right justify against the center vertical bar, but 
> because of font issues it doesn't. I understand that there are 
> workarounds, but I was just curious if this was consistent across all 
> platforms. On linux with R 2.7.1 and R-trunk (r46103), both acrobat 
> reader 8 and kpdf render it incorrectly. How about Mac or Windows? Is 
> this a platform config issue, or something else?
> 
> pdf('temp.pdf', width=11, height=8.5)
> plot(0,0,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1),type='n')
> abline(v=.5)
># pos=2 is for right-alignment
> text(0.5,0.9, 'Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.8, 'Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.7, 'Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.6, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.5, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.4, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.3, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> dev.off()
> 
> Jeff

Interestingly (Debian Linux, R 2.7.1), while I get the same
as you with acrobat reader and (after printing to file as temp.ps)
I also get the same when I view this PostScript file with gnome-gv,
if instead I send the plot to the postscript device in the first
place, i.e. the first line is

  postscript('temp.ps', width=11, height=8.5)

then when I view this temp.ps in gnome-gv the slignment is perfect!

Best wishes,
Ted.

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