[R] bug in dev.copy2pdf output?

[Rolf Turner]

On 29/07/11 09:51, selwyn quan wrote:
>
> 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.

FWIW, evince on my Ubuntu system renders the points correctly as open 
circles.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner