[R] symbols duplicated in plot output

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

There's now a fix in the development version of R.

Paul


Paul Murrell wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It is indeed a bug.
> Should have a fix soon.
> Thanks for the report!
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> baptiste auguie wrote:
>> Thanks for the info.
>>
>> It does look like a bug to me, but it's always best to try and 
>> identify the
>> cause before facing the challenge of a legitimate bug submission.
>>
>> On Mac OS (same info as my first post), the duplicated "mu" is only 
>> present
>> in the pdf output of pdf(), for both grid and base graphics. Cairo and
>> quartz don't duplicate the symbol. postscript() works fine too 
>> (understand
>> 'as I expect') but I haven't been able to check without converting the 
>> file
>> to pdf first.
>>
>>
>> library(grid)
>> pdf("testPdf.pdf")
>> plot.new()
>> text(0.5,0.5, expression(mu),cex=10)
>> grid.newpage()
>> grid.text(expression(mu),gp=gpar(cex=10))
>> dev.off()
>>
>> postscript(file="testEps.eps")
>> grid.newpage()
>> grid.text(expression(mu),gp=gpar(cex=10))
>> dev.off()
>>
>> quartz(file="testQuartz.pdf",type = "pdf")
>> plot.new()
>> text(0.5,0.5, expression(mu),cex=10)
>> dev.off()
>>
>>
>> library(Cairo)
>> Cairo(file="testCairo.pdf",type="pdf",dpi=72)
>> plot.new()
>> text(0.5,0.5, expression(mu),cex=10)
>> dev.off()
>>
>>
>> system("ps2pdf testEps.eps testEps.pdf")
>>
>> # not necessarily enlightening ...
>> #system("cat testPdf.pdf",int=T) # only this one has duplicated symbols
>> #system("cat testEps.pdf",int=T)
>> #system("cat testQuartz.pdf",int=T)
>> #system("cat testCairo.pdf",int=T)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/6/30 Dieter Menne <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> baptiste auguie-5 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> pdf()
>>>> plot(1, xlab=expression(mu))
>>>> dev.off()
>>>>
>>>> If I open this pdf in Illustrator CS4, there are two "mu" on top of 
>>>> each
>>>> other, giving it a somewhat bold aspect. Other characters not from the
>>>> symbol font are just output in one version. I'm guessing this may be 
>>>> very
>>>> much dependent on my config, which is,
>>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>>>> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
>>>>
>>> I was able to reproduce this on Windows. When you open the file with
>>> notepad, you will notice duplicate lines just above the endstream:
>>>
>>> BT
>>> 0.000 0.000 0.000 rg
>>> /F6 1 Tf 12.00 0.00 -0.00 12.00 262.94 18.52 Tm (m) Tj
>>> ET
>>>
>>> When you remove these, problem is gone. I would consider this a bug, 
>>> but do
>>> not dare to call it one.
>>>
>>> Dieter
>>>
>>>
>>> R version 2.9.0 (2009-04-17)
>>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>>
>>> locale:
>>>
>>> LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252;LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252;LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252 
>>>
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] tools_2.9.0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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