R help - Jul 2008 - Should this PDF render correctly without font embedding?

A professor here at Vanderbilt sent me the following code. Each of the 
text strings should right justify against the center vertical bar, but 
because of font issues it doesn't. I understand that there are 
workarounds, but I was just curious if this was consistent across all 
platforms. On linux with R 2.7.1 and R-trunk (r46103), both acrobat 
reader 8 and kpdf render it incorrectly. How about Mac or Windows? Is 
this a platform config issue, or something else?

pdf('temp.pdf', width=11, height=8.5)
plot(0,0,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1),type='n')
abline(v=.5)
# pos=2 is for right-alignment
text(0.5,0.9, 'Yo', pos=2)
text(0.5,0.8, 'Yo Yo', pos=2)
text(0.5,0.7, 'Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
text(0.5,0.6, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
text(0.5,0.5, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
text(0.5,0.4, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
text(0.5,0.3, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
dev.off()

Jeff
-- 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner

Mac OS  X  10.3.5  R 2.7.1
works fine in the quartz window.  Screwed up in Preview with the pdf device

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Horner
<jeff.horner@vanderbilt.edu>
wrote:
> A professor here at Vanderbilt sent me the following code. Each of the text
> strings should right justify against the center vertical bar, but because
of
> font issues it doesn't. I understand that there are workarounds, but I
was
> just curious if this was consistent across all platforms. On linux with R
> 2.7.1 and R-trunk (r46103), both acrobat reader 8 and kpdf render it
> incorrectly. How about Mac or Windows? Is this a platform config issue, or
> something else?
>
> pdf('temp.pdf', width=11, height=8.5)
> plot(0,0,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1),type='n')
> abline(v=.5)
> # pos=2 is for right-alignment
> text(0.5,0.9, 'Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.8, 'Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.7, 'Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.6, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.5, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.4, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.3, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> dev.off()
>
> Jeff
> --
> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner
>
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On 25/07/2008, at 8:29 AM, Jeffrey Horner wrote:
> A professor here at Vanderbilt sent me the following code. Each of  
> the text strings should right justify against the center vertical  
> bar, but because of font issues it doesn't. I understand that there  
> are workarounds, but I was just curious if this was consistent  
> across all platforms. On linux with R 2.7.1 and R-trunk (r46103),  
> both acrobat reader 8 and kpdf render it incorrectly. How about Mac  
> or Windows? Is this a platform config issue, or something else?
>
> pdf('temp.pdf', width=11, height=8.5)
> plot(0,0,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1),type='n')
> abline(v=.5)
> # pos=2 is for right-alignment
> text(0.5,0.9, 'Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.8, 'Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.7, 'Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.6, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.5, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.4, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.3, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> dev.off()
Did a quick check on my Imac --- both Preview and Adobe Reader render  
the
result incorrectly; the text string encroach increasingly upon the  
vertical
line as the number of ``Yo's'' increases.  It renders fine on the
on-
screen
X11 device.

Session info:

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
i386-apple-darwin8.10.1

locale:
C

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

other attached packages:
[1] misc_0.0-4     fortunes_1.3-4 MASS_7.2-41

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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On 24-Jul-08 20:29:09, Jeffrey Horner wrote:
> A professor here at Vanderbilt sent me the following code. Each of the 
> text strings should right justify against the center vertical bar, but 
> because of font issues it doesn't. I understand that there are 
> workarounds, but I was just curious if this was consistent across all 
> platforms. On linux with R 2.7.1 and R-trunk (r46103), both acrobat 
> reader 8 and kpdf render it incorrectly. How about Mac or Windows? Is 
> this a platform config issue, or something else?
> 
> pdf('temp.pdf', width=11, height=8.5)
> plot(0,0,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1),type='n')
> abline(v=.5)
># pos=2 is for right-alignment
> text(0.5,0.9, 'Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.8, 'Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.7, 'Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.6, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.5, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.4, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> text(0.5,0.3, 'Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo', pos=2)
> dev.off()
> 
> Jeff
Interestingly (Debian Linux, R 2.7.1), while I get the same
as you with acrobat reader and (after printing to file as temp.ps)
I also get the same when I view this PostScript file with gnome-gv,
if instead I send the plot to the postscript device in the first
place, i.e. the first line is

  postscript('temp.ps', width=11, height=8.5)

then when I view this temp.ps in gnome-gv the slignment is perfect!

Best wishes,
Ted.

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