[R-SIG-Mac] quartz bug?

[David Airey]

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?

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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.

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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().

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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[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

Post by Prof Brian Ripley
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().

Post by David Airey

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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