Are you talking about the pdf() device? You never say so, but you do say
> The font encoding error does not appear in the postscript
> device driver, and it works fine.
This report is far too vague: what did you do and what reported the file
was corrupt? (Note that Acrobat reader is famous for mis-rendering
files which meet the Adobe PDF specification.)
Please do read the posting guide and restate your problem following the
guidelines there.
Finally, I don't see any claim that arbitrary font encodings would produce
a valid PDF file, so what did you read to suggest that?
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, ivo welch wrote:
>
> Dear R wizards: I believe some more font encoding info. some of the
> font encodings work, others do not: IsoLatin1, MacRoman, WinAnsi, and
> PDFDoc seem fine. AdobeStd, AdobeSym, ISOLatin2, ISOLatin9, and
> TeXtext seem broken, in that the resulting output file is silently
> corrupt. The font encoding error does not appear in the postscript
> device driver, and it works fine. It would be nice if R gave an error
> message, instead of producing corrupt .pdf files. Just a suggestion...
>
> Regards,
>
> /iaw
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> ivo welch
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