R help - Dec 2007 - Mono in postscript device

Hi,

Plotting a graphic into a postscript device using family="mono"
returns the
following error message:
>>	family 'mono' not included in PostScript device
Looking at postscriptFonts() however lists the "Courier" font as
availeable
mono font. So where is the problem?


Thanks guys for your help.
Best regards

Benjamin



sessionInfo()

R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] "tools"     "stats"     "graphics" 
"grDevices" "utils"
[6] "datasets"  "methods"   "base"     

other attached packages:
      affy     affyio    Biobase hgu133acdf    hgu133a 
  "1.14.0"    "1.4.0"   "1.14.0"  
"1.16.0"   "1.16.0"
 
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Benjamin Otto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Plotting a graphic into a postscript device using family="mono"
returns the
> following error message:
>
>>> 	family 'mono' not included in PostScript device
>
> Looking at postscriptFonts() however lists the "Courier" font as
availeable
> mono font. So where is the problem?
The 'problem' is that you have not provided us with reproducible code,
and
used an obsolete version of R.  At least some of the ways you might have 
done this you needed to specify the 'fonts' argument to postscript().

As a minimal example,
> postscript(family="mono")
> plot(1:10)
> dev.off()
works in R 2.6.1.  If that does not work for you, you need to update.
If it does, you need to consider what you did differently.
> Thanks guys for your help.
> Best regards
>
> Benjamin
>
> sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
> i386-pc-mingw32
[...]


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