Hi Erik!

I googled and found that very helpful message on this adress:
http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/grDevices/html/pdf.html
But when i type ?pdf I get directed here:
http://127.0.0.1:29358/library/grDevices/html/pdf.html

which doesn't contain that information.

Thanks for the help

2010/11/4 Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>

>
> Just read the help page :).
> This is under "Note" in the ?pdf.
>
>
>     On some systems the default plotting character ‘pch = 1’ is
>     displayed in some PDF viewers incorrectly as a ‘"q"’ character.
>     (These seem to be viewers based on the ‘poppler’ PDF rendering
>     library). This may be due to incorrect or incomplete mapping of
>     font names to those used by the system.  Adding the following
>     lines to ‘~/.fonts.conf’ or ‘/etc/fonts/local.conf’ may circumvent
>     this problem.
>
>
>
>     <alias binding="same">
>            <family>ZapfDingbats</family>
>            <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept>
>     </alias>
>
>
> I've found that in my case, this happens when viewing a PDF
> with that plotting character under old versions of Evince, but
> not newer.
>
> --Erik
>
> Rafael Björk wrote:
>
>> Dear R-users
>>
>> When trying to import graphics from an pdf-file to a Vector graphics
>> editor
>> (I use Inkscape, but i've confirmed the same problem on adobe products),
>> all
>> points in the graphics turn out as "q"s.
>> This example displays the beaviour:
>>
>> pdf(file="points are weird.pdf")
>> plot(1:5)
>> dev.off()
>>
>> When importing the file to inkscape, I get five neatly arranged little
>> "q"s.
>> The obvious workaround would be to change the points into another plotting
>> character, but this isn't the first time i've encountered this behaviour,
>> and it would be nice to solve it properly instead.
>> I realize this might not strictly be a question related to R, but if
>> someone
>> who've encountered the problem has found a solution or workaround it would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Kind regards/
>> Rafael
>>
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