[texhax] Graphics from R into Latex

[Lars Madsen]

Henrik Aldberg wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> I think you are right. When i opened the Latex output on my home 
> computer (a Mac), it looked fine. So the problem should be with the 
> viewing application on the computer at work.
> 

That is probably because the MAC contains thousands of fonts, that are 
not available (by default) on other systems.

That being said. Why doen't R embed the fonts? Isn't there an option for 
that in R?

/daleif

> Thanks for the help.
> 
> On 4 June 2010 17:48, Steve Schwartz <s.schwartz at imperial.ac.uk 
> <mailto:s.schwartz at imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Henrik,
> 
>     On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:26 +0100, Henrik Aldberg wrote:
>      > The first file is the original PDF file and the second file is the
>      > latex output (also containing the Latex code).
> 
>     Both your pdf and your latex output look fine to me, including heading
>     and labels, etc. in the latex output. I strongly suspect the problem is
>     that your pdf figure uses Helvetic and Helvetica-Bold fonts which are
>     NOT embedded in the file, so whether you can see them, or whether they
>     might be substituted by other fonts, is dependent on the rest of your
>     system and the application you use to view the latex output with.
> 
>     I attach a version of your figure that uses embedded Nimbus fonts
>     instead of Helvetica. (I generated this by printing your pdf to a file.)
> 
>     Try this on your system. If it works, you might then explore if/how you
>     can force your R to embed fonts in its output. Or use acrobat or
>     something else to embed the fonts.
> 
>     HTH
>     Steve
> 
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