[R] PDF Arial, Helvetica and Pagemaker 7.0

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Neuro LeSuperHéros wrote:

Do give your real name and affiliation!  What exactly are you trying to 
hide?

Why don't you ask on a PageMaker list how to get it to accept valid PDF?
This is a bug in PageMaker, not in R.

> I can generate PDF documents and they look good on acrobat reader.  However, 
> when I import the PDFs in Pagemaker 7.0 (on windows2K), I get an error 
> message saying it does not recognize the Helvetica font.
>
> I got this from ?pdf:
>
> family
> the font family to be used, one of "AvantGarde", "Bookman", "Courier", 
> "Helvetica", "Helvetica-Narrow", "NewCenturySchoolbook", "Palatino" or 
> "Times". Note the other specifications allowed for postscript are not 
> available.
>
> There in no mention of Arial.  Is there a way to force R to use the Arial 
> family?


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