[R] unicode&pdf font problem RESOLVED
David Winsemius
dwinsemius at comcast.net
Thu Jan 13 16:47:09 CET 2011
On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Sascha Vieweg wrote:
> I have many German umlauts in my data sets and code them UTF-8. When
> it comes to plotting on pdf, I figured out that "CP1257" is a good
> choice to output Umlauts. I have no experiences with "CP1250", but
> maybe this small hint helps:
>
> pdf(file=paste(sharepath, "/filename.pdf", sep=""), 9, 6, pointsize
> = 11, family = "Helvetica", encoding = "CP1257")
Just an FYI for the archives, that encoding fails with
pdf(encoding="CP1257") on a Mac when printing that target umlaut.
David.
>
> *S*
>
> On 11-01-13 16:17, tdenes at cogpsyphy.hu wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:17:04 +0100 (CET)
>> From: tdenes at cogpsyphy.hu
>> To: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] unicode&pdf font problem RESOLVED
>>
>> Dear David,
>>
>> Thank you for your efforts. Inspired by your remarks, I started a new
>> google-search and found this:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3434349/sweave-not-printing-localized-characters
>>
>> SO HERE COMES THE SOLUTION (it works on both OSs):
>>
>> pdf.options(encoding = "CP1250")
>> pdf()
>> plot(1,type="n")
>> text(1,1,"\U0171")
>> dev.off()
>>
>> CP1250 should work for all Central-European languages:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250
>>
>>
>> Thank you again,
>> Denes
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 13, 2011, at 7:01 AM, tdenes at cogpsyphy.hu wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the missing specs, here they are:
>>>>> version
>>>> _
>>>> platform i386-pc-mingw32
>>>> arch i386
>>>> os mingw32
>>>> system i386, mingw32
>>>> status
>>>> major 2
>>>> minor 12.1
>>>> year 2010
>>>> month 12
>>>> day 16
>>>> svn rev 53855
>>>> language R
>>>> version.string R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
>>>>
>>>> OS: Windows 7 (English version, 32 bit)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You are after what Adobe calls: udblacute; 0171. It is recognized
>>> in
>>> the list of adobe glyphs:
>>> > str(tools::Adobe_glyphs[371, ])
>>> 'data.frame': 1 obs. of 2 variables:
>>> $ adobe : chr "udblacute"
>>> $ unicode: chr "0171"
>>>
>>> Consulted the help pages
>>> points {graphics}
>>> postscript {grDevices}
>>> pdf {grDevices}
>>> charsets {tools}
>>> postscriptFonts {grDevices}
>>>
>>> I have tried a variety of the pdfFonts installed on my Mac without
>>> success. You can perhaps make a list of fonts on your machines with
>>> names(pdfFonts()). Perhaps the range of fonts and the glyphs they
>>> contain is different on your machines. I get consistently warning
>>> messages saying there is a conversion failure:
>>>
>>> > pdf("trial.pdf", family="Helvetica")
>>> # also tried with font="Helvetica" but I think that is erroneous
>>> > plot(1,type="n")
>>> > text(1,1,"print \U0170\U0171")
>>> Warning messages:
>>> 1: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>>> substituted
>>> for <c5>
>>> 2: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>>> substituted
>>> for <b0>
>>> 3: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>>> substituted
>>> for <c5>
>>> 4: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>>> substituted
>>> for <b1>
>>> 5: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> font metrics unknown for Unicode character U+0170
>>> 6: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> font metrics unknown for Unicode character U+0171
>>> 7: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>>> substituted
>>> for <c5>
>>> 8: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>>> substituted
>>> for <b0>
>>> 9: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>>> substituted
>>> for <c5>
>>> 10: In text.default(1, 1, "print Űű") :
>>> conversion failure on 'print Űű' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot
>>> substituted
>>> for <b1>
>>>
>>> And this is despite my system saying the \U0170 and \U0171 are
>>> present
>>> in the Helvetica font. Also tried family=URWHelvetica and
>>> family=NimbusSanand and a bunch of others without success, but my
>>> last
>>> best hope after reading the material in help(postscript) in the
>>> "Families" section had been NimbusSan. There is also information on
>>> that page regarding encodings that appears to be very machine
>>> specific.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Note that \U0171 != ü. See
>>>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/171/index.htm
>>>> Anyway, I have no problem with ű (~u") and other special
>>>> Hungarian
>>>> characters in my R-Gui. It is correctly displayed in the console,
>>>> in
>>>> plots, etc. The problem is with the pdf conversion.
>>>>
>>>> The same holds for my Ubuntu Hardy Heron system*, with exactly the
>>>> same
>>>> error messages as reported in an earlier thread
>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg89792.html
>>>> As far as I know, Hershey fonts do not contain \U0171.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Denes
>>>>
>>>> * The specs of Ubuntu:
>>>>> version
>>>> _
>>>> platform x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>>> arch x86_64
>>>> os linux-gnu
>>>> system x86_64, linux-gnu
>>>> status
>>>> major 2
>>>> minor 12.0
>>>> year 2010
>>>> month 10
>>>> day 15
>>>> svn rev 53317
>>>> language R
>>>> version.string R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:11 PM, tdenes at cogpsyphy.hu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear List,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to print a plot into pdf. The problem is that the
>>>>>> character
>>>>>> \U0171 is replaced by a simple 'u' (i.e. without accents) in
>>>>>> the pdf
>>>>>> file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Example:
>>>>>> # this works fine
>>>>>> plot(1,type="n")
>>>>>> text(1,1,"print \U0171")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # this fails
>>>>>> pdf("trial.pdf")
>>>>>> plot(1,type="n")
>>>>>> text(1,1,"print \U0171")
>>>>>> dev.off()
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you tried:
>>>>>
>>>>> pdf("trial.pdf")
>>>>> plot(1,type="n")
>>>>> text(1,1,"print ü")
>>>>> dev.off()
>>>>>
>>>>> Your default screen fonts may not be the same as your default pdf
>>>>> fonts. A lot depends on system specifics, none of which have you
>>>>> provided.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I found an earlier post at
>>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg65541.html,
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> it is
>>>>>> too hard to understand at my R-level. Any help is appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> David Winsemius, MD
>>>>> West Hartford, CT
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> David Winsemius, MD
>>> West Hartford, CT
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
> --
> Sascha Vieweg, saschaview at gmail.com
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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