[R] bug in dev.copy2pdf output?

[selwyn quan]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 11-07-28 1:22 PM, selwyn quan wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am using R 2.13.1 on Linux (Fedora). Is anybody else having problems 
>> with
>> dev.copy2pdf xyplot output with the pch=1 (open circle) symbol? The
>> symbols come out as "q" in the PDF.  dev.copy2eps produces the correct
>> results as does cairo_pdf. Other symbols produced with dev.copy2pdf seem
>> ok.
>> 
>
> There have been reports like this before that turned out to be problems in 
> the viewer, which made inappropriate font substitutions.  How did you 
> determine that the circles came out as q?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

You are right. Think it is a bug in Fedora's evince. Acrobat reader 
renders the PDF fine.

Thanks for the feedback.
Selwyn