R devel - Mar 2008 - embedFonts() side-effect under 2.6.2 ?

I received the following as a Debain bug report (cf
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469560) 

   To reproduce:

   1) Run the following commands:

   filename <- 'test.pdf'
   pdf(filename)
   plot(1:10)
   dev.off()
   
   2) Open test.pdf (I use Evince, but the same with Adobe Acrobat). Make
      sure there are ten hollow points in the plot. This is correct.
   
   3) Run command
   
   embedFonts(filename)
   
   4) Open test.pdf again. The points are now solid.
   
   The bug was introduced in one of the recent versions (I think in
   2.6.x). I'm ready to provide any additional info.

I don;t have r-devel (or r-patched) handy right now. Could someone kindly
confirm / deny is this is still an open issue?
   
Thanks, Dirk

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On 5 March 2008 at 17:26, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| I received the following as a Debain bug report (cf
| http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469560) 
| 
|    To reproduce:
| 
|    1) Run the following commands:
| 
|    filename <- 'test.pdf'
|    pdf(filename)
|    plot(1:10)
|    dev.off()
|    
|    2) Open test.pdf (I use Evince, but the same with Adobe Acrobat). Make
|       sure there are ten hollow points in the plot. This is correct.
|    
|    3) Run command
|    
|    embedFonts(filename)
|    
|    4) Open test.pdf again. The points are now solid.
|    
|    The bug was introduced in one of the recent versions (I think in
|    2.6.x). I'm ready to provide any additional info.
| 
| I don;t have r-devel (or r-patched) handy right now. 

Now I do. With the tarball of R-devel aka the future R 2.7.0 (svn r44677), we

  a) the same result of a bad R / gs interaction turning the bullets if we
     use pdf() and the embedFonts()

  b) however, using the shiny new cairo_pdf() device, no such problem arises.

So, given the bug report against R 2.6.2 and the continued problem under R
2.7.0, is this a valid problem?  Or is it just a side-effect of ghostscript
manipulating the file ?

Dirk

| Could someone kindly confirm / deny is this is still an open issue?
|    
| Thanks, Dirk
| 
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| Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
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