[R] Problem with Palatino font in pdf figures

[Paul Smith]

On 9/30/07, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Consider the following piece of code:
> >
> > pdf(file="figure.pdf", family="Palatino")
> > plot(0,0,type='n', xlim=c(-20,20), ylim=c(0,2),xlab="",ylab="",axes=F)
> > text(-1.4,1.168,expression(italic("The font looks different when this
> > is seen with Acrobat Reader!")),xpd=T)
> > dev.off()
> >
> > When viewing the produced figure.pdf with kpdf (on Linux), it looks as
> > being written with LaTeX Mathpazo font, but not when one views
> > figure.pdf with Acrobat Reader. Any ideas about how to get the same
> > result both with kpdf and with Acrobat Reader?
>
> Note that R does not embed the fonts by default in the PDF file.
>
> Based upon what I am seeing here on F7, which is consistent with your
> comments, the font substitution mapping in Adobe Reader 8 is different
> than that in either kpdf, gv or in Evince. The latter three appear to be
> using the same font substitution and look the same.
>
> You might want to review ?pdfFonts and ?embedFonts for additional
> information as well as the article by Paul Murrell and Prof. Ripley in R
> News on non-standard fonts:
>
>   http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf

Thanks, Marc. With embedFonts, everything gets right!

Paul