[R] (Somewhat) broken EPS files produced

Paul Hiemstra p.hiemstra at geo.uu.nl
Mon Feb 22 11:30:59 CET 2010


Hi Wartan,

Not really an answer to your specific problem, but you could try to use 
pdf instead of eps, in combination ofcourse with pdflatex. I've never 
had problems with pdf nad Sweave. If you need to use eps, than my reply 
is of no help to you :).

cheers,
Paul

Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm writing some simple text using sweave, and faced a strange problem
> with eps files produced for my plots (one example attached).
> Individual eps files are interpreted by ghostscript just fine, and
> show up without errors. But once I try to include them into main
> LaTeX/Sweave document (using regular \includegraphics, produced by
> Sweave),
> ghostscript gives me this error on those files:
>
> Error: /undefinedresult in --stringwidth--
> Operand stack:
>    (600)   0.5
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1878
> 1   3   %oparray_pop   1877   1   3   %oparray_pop   1861   1   3
> %oparray_pop   1755   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
> %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
> --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1157/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:82/200(L)--
> --dict:178/300(L)--   --dict:91/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Current file position is 207944
> GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> What might be the problem?
>
> P.S. I get exactly the same behavior on Debian/sid and OS X.
>
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