[R-SIG-Mac] error in postscript -- unknown family 'Arial'

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi, 

An additional pointer that might be helpful:

  https://support.apple.com/guide/font-book/install-and-validate-fonts-fntbk1000/mac <https://support.apple.com/guide/font-book/install-and-validate-fonts-fntbk1000/mac>


Regards,

Marc Schwartz


> On May 1, 2019, at 9:48 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek using R-project.org> wrote:
> 
> You likely don't have "Arial" installed (or it's corrupted). Use a font that you have present in your system (see Font Book under Applications).
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 30, 2019, at 6:50 PM, Ryan Pavlovicz <pavlo2 using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am a new R user and am trying to run another person's data analysis
>> script that is failing with the following:
>> 
>> Error in postscript("Fig.eps", FALSE, "Arial", width = 13.83,  :
>> 
>> unknown family 'Arial'
>> 
>> 
>> I am running with Mojave 10.14.4 if that matters. Any help would be much
>> appreciated!
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> -ryan


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