R help - Nov 2007 - PDF file creation, font problem

I have recently installed R v. 2.6.0. I am running Windows XP.  I have done the
package update as recommended by Brian Ripley.

I wish to create a PDF version of a graph but I am getting the error messages:

Error: Invalid font type
In addition: Warning messages:
1: font family not found in PostScript font database 
2: font family not found in PostScript font database 

I am using the standard font family "serif" and had no problem with
this in my previous R version (2.4.0).

I did a search in the help archives and came up with one previous posting on
11th Oct but there wasn't a useful reply.

Any ideas?

Best wishes, Kris.

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what has been suggested, for a while on the mailing list now, is to 
upgrade R to the patched version.

On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Kris Lockyear wrote:
>
> I have recently installed R v. 2.6.0. I am running Windows XP.  I have 
> done the package update as recommended by Brian Ripley.
>
> I wish to create a PDF version of a graph but I am getting the error 
> messages:
>
> Error: Invalid font type
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: font family not found in PostScript font database
> 2: font family not found in PostScript font database
>
> I am using the standard font family "serif" and had no problem
with
> this in my previous R version (2.4.0).
>
> I did a search in the help archives and came up with one previous 
> posting on 11th Oct but there wasn't a useful reply.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best wishes, Kris.

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Kris Lockyear wrote:
>
> I have recently installed R v. 2.6.0. I am running Windows XP.  I have done
the package update as recommended by Brian Ripley.
>
> I wish to create a PDF version of a graph but I am getting the error
messages:
>
> Error: Invalid font type
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: font family not found in PostScript font database
> 2: font family not found in PostScript font database
>
> I am using the standard font family "serif" and had no problem
with this in my previous R version (2.4.0).
>
> I did a search in the help archives and came up with one previous 
> posting on 11th Oct but there wasn't a useful reply.
There was one on October 4
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-October/142414.html
and on October 11
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-October/143069.html
and several times since.

I guess someone who doesn't notice the requests not to send HTML mail and 
to use a signature block in the R posting guide isn't very good at 
spotting things.
> Any ideas?
>
> Best wishes, Kris.
>
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