[R-SIG-Mac] quartz bug?

[David Airey]

A bug in the Mac OS perhaps, or an interaction between the Mac OS and  
HP Printers. I had someone tell me a Brother printer worked with the  
files I posted. Thanks. At least I know more now.

-Dave

On Oct 16, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> pdf() is not involved when you save from a quartz() device.  There  
> certainly is a difference, a completely different R graphics device  
> involving MacOS system calls is used by quartz().
>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, David Airey wrote:
>
>>> I'm having problems printing a PDF via LaTeX that was created in R  
>>> for OS X (latest versions). The package that created the files was  
>>> akima; that's probably irrelevant. I can't print the PDFs from  
>>> Preview when they are in a LaTeX generated PDF, although I can  
>>> print them in their original form. The files are temporarily at
>>> http://public.me.com/dairey
>>> in the bad_pdf directory. I'm printing to an HP Laserjet (1320).  
>>> The PS error is complaining about ArialMT as far as I can tell.  
>>> But when I read help for quartz(), the top of the help file says,
>>> family
>>> this is the family name of the font that will be used by the  
>>> device. Default "Helvetica".
>>> and the bottom of the help file says,
>>> The default font family is Arial.
>>> So which is it? And why when I use quartz.options(family="Arial",  
>>> reset=TRUE), do quartz() devices not respect my command? All  
>>> resulting graphs still look like Helvetica. Could this be the  
>>> problem with printing PDFs? Why is the GUI preferences for  
>>> changing the font there but one cannot alter the font?
>>
>> I wrote the above earlier. Turns out, when I save a PDF from the  
>> quartz device, and include it in a latex document, I get a memory  
>> full error associated with definefont postscript command. If I make  
>> the PDF using the pdf() function, I get no error from printing the  
>> figures in latex. So I think there is some kind of bug/difference  
>> between saving a PDF from the quartz() device and creating a PDF  
>> using pdf(). Also, I note that the figures are not quite rendered  
>> exactly the same.
>>
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