[R] embedFonts() does not embed fonts?

[Sverre Stausland]

Some of you might see that there's a tiny mistake in the embedFonts()
call. fontpaths = "C/Windows/Fonts" should of course be fontpaths =
"C:/Windows/Fonts". I fixed this, but it didn't change the fact that
the new .pdf does not have its fonts embedded.

Sverre

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Sverre Stausland
<johnsen at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Dear helpers,
>
> I'm trying out the embedFonts() to embed fonts into my pdf files.
> However, when I inspect the new pdf with a program designed to look
> for embedded fonts, I see that the fonts have in fact not been
> embedded. Below are my calls.
>
>
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>> Sys.setenv("R_GSCMD"="C:/Downloads/gs9.04/bin/gswin32c.exe")
>>
>> pdf(file = "test.pdf", family = "serif")
>> plot(1:10)
>> dev.off()
> null device
>          1
>>
>> embedFonts(file = "test.pdf", format = "pdfwrite", outfile = "test_em.pdf",fontpaths =
>
> "C/Windows/Fonts")
>>
>> Sys.unsetenv(x = "R_GSCMD")
>>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> Sys.getlocale()
> [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United
>
> States.1252"
>>
>
> ------------------------------------
> pdffonts.exe test_em.pdf
> name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
> ZapfDingbats                         Type 1            no  no  yes     10  0
> Times-Roman                          Type 1            no  no  no      11  0
>