Mac OS  X  10.3.5  R 2.7.1
works fine in the quartz window.  Screwed up in Preview with the pdf device

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Horner <jeff.horner@vanderbilt.edu>
wrote:

> A professor here at Vanderbilt sent me the following code. Each of the text
> strings should right justify against the center vertical bar, but because of
> font issues it doesn't. I understand that there are workarounds, but I was
> just curious if this was consistent across all platforms. On linux with R
> 2.7.1 and R-trunk (r46103), both acrobat reader 8 and kpdf render it
> incorrectly. How about Mac or Windows? Is this a platform config issue, or
> something else?
>
> pdf('temp.pdf', width=11, height=8.5)
> plot(0,0,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1),type='n')
> abline(v=.5)
> # pos=2 is for right-alignment
> text(0.5,0.9, 'Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.8, 'Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.7, 'Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.6, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.5, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.4, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.3, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> dev.off()
>
> Jeff
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