I am using Linux (Ubuntu 8.04).
I tried
> dev.print(bitmap, file='test.png', family='arial')
but it gave error message of

"Error in postscript(fild=cmd, width=width, height=height,
pointsize=pointsize, : Unknown family 'arial' "

What should I do?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Hyunchul


On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> What OS are you using?
> What device are you using to produce 'bitmap output'?
>
> 'Arial' (sic) is not a freely available font, but if you have it on your
> system you may be able to make use of it by adding a 'family'.  The details
> depens on details you failed to give: please see the footer of this message.
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Hyunchul Kim wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>>
>> I want to specify "arial" font in bitmap output but I found that the
>> default
>> is "helvetica" and "arial" is not supported.
>>
>> How can I add "arial" in my bitmap output file?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Hyunchul
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