Because of the issue raised in https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2013-November/362896.html, I am switching to R on Mac OS X (10.6.8) to create some plots. Using CairoPDF(), however, the commands I use in Windows (7) to select my fonts don't have any effect on Mac OS X, where the output .pdf file always has the Helvetica font. library(package = "Cairo") CairoPDF("test.pdf") plot.new() text(x=.5,y=.5,labels="\u0260",family="Times New Roman") dev.off() The outputs are attached. The Times New Roman font is exactly the same on both systems. I'm using R 3.0.2 on both systems. Sverre -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: windows.png Type: image/png Size: 896 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20131110/bd0c8ae7/attachment.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mac.png Type: image/png Size: 1028 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20131110/bd0c8ae7/attachment-0001.png>