R help - Jul 2006 - : Arial font for text in lattice plots under Linux

Hi,

I have been asked by a publisher to change the font style of a lattice 
plot in my manuscript. I have consulted documentation on trellis 
graphics and the excellent book "R graphics", but am still not sure
how
I could create plots with Arial as the font style for text in the plot.  
I am running R (Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)) under debian Linux. I have 
msttcorefonts installed.

Will it be possible to do this with jpeg() as a device? Or with 
postscript()?




Peter

This is a question about devices, not lattice per se, so applies to all 
forms of plotting.

For jpeg, you can specify the fonts via the 'fonts' argument: see ?X11.

For postscript, you can convert the fonts to Type 1 via e.g. ttf2pt1, or 
you can use ttf2afm to make .afm files and a postscript interpreter that 
can handle TrueType fonts.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Peter Ho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been asked by a publisher to change the font style of a lattice 
> plot in my manuscript. I have consulted documentation on trellis 
> graphics and the excellent book "R graphics", but am still not
sure how
> I could create plots with Arial as the font style for text in the plot.  
> I am running R (Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)) under debian Linux. I have 
> msttcorefonts installed.
> 
> Will it be possible to do this with jpeg() as a device? Or with 
> postscript()?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
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