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...the plot is produced on screen (outside of CairoPDF). The syntax that I use for it in plot command is: 'xlab=expression(paste("A",beta,)[1-42])'. When I try to select a different font family using 'family' option in the CairoPDF command - it has no effect. I tried 'CairoFonts', but it displays an error: 'Warning message: In CairoFonts() : the R Cairo package was not installed with fontconfig. Please consider installing the cairo graphics engine (www.cairographics.org) with freetype and fontconfig support' I have the most recent GTK+ installed. I don...

...trying to figure out what fonts are available to be used with Cairo, specifically the CairoPDF function. I've been able to successfully produce some test PDFs with grid graphics and CairoPDF (and the font "Georgia"), so my basic setup is working. I've tried to experiment with the CairoFonts() function but get the message: "the R Cairo package was not installed with fontconfig. Please consider installing the cairo graphics engine (www.cairographics.org) with freetype and fontconfig support" I'm not quite sure how to interpret this. My version of Cairo comes from the GT...

Hi all, I'm having problems embedding fonts in my graphics - and I've tried embedFonts to no avail. I have a pdf file and pdffonts tells me: name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- ZapfDingbats Type 1 no no no 5 0 Helvetica

dear R-experts---can someone please refer me to the latest installation instructions for graphics fonts in R (the pdf device)? (I would like to install the Charter font from the texlive 2011 distribution under OSX.) sincerely, /iaw ---- Ivo Welch (ivo.welch at gmail.com)

Hi, Has anyone else run into this weird behaviour where the text in the plots created using Cairo are always italicized. For example, library(Cairo) Cairo(file='cairo_created', type='pdf', dpi=100) plot(1:10) dev.off() This produces the following attached 'cairo_created.pdf' graph. Notice how the text is italicized. The same code but using pdf() as the graphics

I am attempting to get publication quality graphs using R on Ubuntu. I encounter lots of problems in using cex to control font size: for instance cex=1.5 results in very blocky characters. I then tried to use res=1200 while creating a PNG file, hoping that this would solve the problem, but it did not. When doing the above, a second problem appeared: the font size relative to the graphics decreased