[R] bug in dev.copy2pdf output?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 23:42:13 CEST 2011


On 11-07-28 1:22 PM, selwyn quan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am using R 2.13.1 on Linux (Fedora). Is anybody else having problems with
> dev.copy2pdf xyplot output with the pch=1 (open circle) symbol? The
> symbols come out as "q" in the PDF.  dev.copy2eps produces the correct
> results as does cairo_pdf. Other symbols produced with dev.copy2pdf seem
> ok.
>

There have been reports like this before that turned out to be problems 
in the viewer, which made inappropriate font substitutions.  How did you 
determine that the circles came out as q?

Duncan Murdoch



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