On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 3:06 PM, ivo welch <ivo.welch at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R-experts---is there a relatively low-pain way to get unicode > characters into a plot to a pdf device? > Have you tried Cairo package or cairo_pdf()? Both are making use of Cairo, which uses UTF-8 and automatically embeds fonts. Regards Liviu