[R] pdf font encoding

[M.Kondrin]

Petr Pikal wrote:

>Dear all.
>
>This is probably more PDF then R issue but anyway, maybe 
>somebody can help me.
>
>I try to persuade pdf device to use eastern european (Czech) 
>encoding but I was not successful yet. Working on W 2000, R 
>1.9.0, lattice plots.
>
>pdf("redprov.pdf", width = 5, height = 5, bg="white", 
>family="Times", encoding="WinAnsi")
>
>The characters are OK when using other devices (screen, png, ...) 
>but in case of pdf, some characters are not correctly shown nor 
>printed.
>
>After reading help pages and some archives I understand I shall 
>change encoding and/or font but after I used several combinations 
>without making any progress I gave up. Shall I install some other 
>encoding and/or fonts?
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Best regards
>
>
>
>Petr Pikal
>petr.pikal at precheza.cz
>
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If you are working under Linux I would suggest using 
bitmap(type="pdfwrite") instead of pdf(). Bitmap function is a shortcut 
for postscript() and ps2pdf command from ghostscript (so as far as you 
manage to install national fonts into ghostscript it will be OK with non 
ascii symbols). As I have heard Windows has some problems with 
postscript, so do not know how it will work under Windows.