R help - Feb 2009 - Embedding fonts in pdf graphics

I know you can control this with the cairo package, but I was hoping 
that embedFonts( ) would provide a way to embed all fonts, not just the 
non-standard ones.  I'm submitting graphics to a journal that wants 
Helvetica and Helvetica-bold embedded for some reason.  Is there an easy 
way to do this on a pdf graphic created wit pdf()?  A linux system 
command would be excellent for my purpose.

Thanks
Frank
-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University

Although I haven't tried it, but this might work:
http://colinm.org/tips/latex

Best,
Gabor

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr
<f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> I know you can control this with the cairo package, but I was hoping that
> embedFonts( ) would provide a way to embed all fonts, not just the
> non-standard ones.  I'm submitting graphics to a journal that wants
> Helvetica and Helvetica-bold embedded for some reason.  Is there an easy
way
> to do this on a pdf graphic created wit pdf()?  A linux system command
would
> be excellent for my purpose.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
> --
> Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
>                     Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University
>
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Gabor Csardi <Gabor.Csardi at unil.ch>     UNIL DGM

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
> I know you can control this with the cairo package, but I was hoping that 
> embedFonts( ) would provide a way to embed all fonts, not just the 
> non-standard ones.  I'm submitting graphics to a journal that wants
Helvetica
> and Helvetica-bold embedded for some reason.  Is there an easy way to do
this
> on a pdf graphic created wit pdf()?  A linux system command would be 
> excellent for my purpose.
The problem is having a legitmately licensed version of those 
copyright fonts that allows you to send them (or subsetted versions) 
to the journal.  I do not know how that would come to be, and would be 
inclined to ask the journal to supply them.

One possible way out is to use Nimbus Sans aka URW Helvetica, which 
embetFonts can embed.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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