[R] bug in dev.copy2pdf output?

[selwyn quan]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Rolf Turner wrote:

> On 29/07/11 09:51, selwyn quan wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>> 
>> You are right. Think it is a bug in Fedora's evince. Acrobat reader 
>> renders the PDF fine.
>
> FWIW, evince on my Ubuntu system renders the points correctly as open 
> circles.
>
>    cheers,
>
>        Rolf Turner
>

see this bug report for a more detailed explanation:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18002