[R] R 2.70 + ps2pdf14

[ivo welch]

thanks, berwin.  yes, I meant ghostscript 8.62, of course.  ps2pdf14
is the equivalent of a distiller and is needed to embed fonts.  (R
does not embed fonts itself afaik.)  if someone knows another way to
embed all the fonts, I would love to know so that I can avoid ps2pdf14
altogether (not just in this example, but generally; I use lucida
fonts most of the time).

if developers from the R graphics group are reading this, given that
this strange output is not just my imagination, maybe it would be
worthwhile to see if the R output pdf could be made more robust to
avoid this "feature."  I stumbled onto it deep in a program, and spend
an afternoon distilling it down to the R script that I posted.  It was
quite puzzling.

PS: semicolons are a hobby, and one explicitly allowed by R.  ;-).

regards,

/ivo


On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Berwin A Turlach
<berwin at maths.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> G'day Ivo,
>
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 21:33:35 -0400
> "ivo welch" <ivowel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> dear R graphics experts---
>
> Not belonging to this group, but can confirm that I can see the same,
> in particular the circles are changing their size.
>
> However, I am a bit surprised that you run ps2pdf14 on a PDF file,
> according to the documentation the input should be a (E)PS file.
>
>> if anyone is running the combination of R 2.7.0 and ghostscript
>> (2.62),
>
> and I guess you mean ghostscript 8.62?  Ghostscript 2.62 would be
> really ancient, probably from before the time that PDF was created... :)
>
>> could you please run the following
>
> I will also leave it to somebody else on the list, specifically to
> people who find such coding particularly ugly if not offensive, to point
> out that semicolons are not needed at the end of lines of R scripts. :)
>
> HTH.
>
> Cheers,
>
>        Berwin
>
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