R help - Aug 2004 - Use Font Frutiger in PDF-File

Hi,

I'd like to use the font "Frutiger" in my pdf files generated by
R.
but I only manage this if I create a postscript file with 
postscript() and the option family = c( "LT_14361.afm", 
"LT_14363.afm", "LT_14373.afm", "LT_14375.afm" )
and convert this
postscript file to pdf.
If I specify the option 'family' like above ( = c("...afm",
..., ...
... ) ) in the function pdf(), I'll get the error message: 
"length(family)' differs between new and previous!".

Can I specify 'family' in pdf() only as "Helvetica" etc. and
not as a
vector (like above) ?
Is there no better and shorter way to get my favourite font into a 
pdf file?

Thanks,
Helga Neidlinger
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Have you read the help file?  It says (R 1.9.1)

  family: the font family to be used, one of '"AvantGarde"',
          '"Bookman"', '"Courier"',
'"Helvetica"',
          '"Helvetica-Narrow"',
'"NewCenturySchoolbook"', '"Palatino"'
          or '"Times"'. 

Now, it would seem if you can get away with specifying a list of *five* 
afms, but not four as in postscript.  Try

family = c("LT_14361.afm", "LT_14363.afm",
"LT_14373.afm",
           "LT_14375.afm", "sy______.afm") 

but if it does not work, remember it is undocumented.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Helga Neidlinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to use the font "Frutiger" in my pdf files generated
by R.
> but I only manage this if I create a postscript file with 
> postscript() and the option family = c( "LT_14361.afm", 
> "LT_14363.afm", "LT_14373.afm",
"LT_14375.afm" ) and convert this
> postscript file to pdf.
> If I specify the option 'family' like above ( =
c("...afm", ..., ...
> ... ) ) in the function pdf(), I'll get the error message: 
> "length(family)' differs between new and previous!".
> 
> Can I specify 'family' in pdf() only as "Helvetica" etc.
and not as a
> vector (like above) ?
> Is there no better and shorter way to get my favourite font into a 
> pdf file?
> 
> Thanks,
> Helga Neidlinger
> 
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