[R] Math labels in .eps files

[Fredrik Karlsson]

Dear Professor Ripley,

Thank you for your prompt answer. Indeed, cairo_ps solved the problem for me.

Thank you!

Fredrik 

5 jun 2012 kl. 11:51 skrev Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:

> On 04/06/2012 17:25, Fredrik Karlsson wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I have non-ascii labels that I want to include somethow in a .eps file for
>> inclusion into a LateX document. Is this possible?
>> 
>> What I see is that the (attached)  png file looks ok but the .eps renders
>> all non-ascii labels at the bottom as [..].
>> 
>> 
>> I've searched around enough to learn that including math labels in a .eps
>> is a problem. Hower, is there a solution too somewhere?
> 
> I don't think it is a problem: see ?plotmath.  But the problem here is that you seem to want glyphs not in the plotmath set.
> 
> You have neither told us your platform nor the R code you used (as requested in the posting guide), so we cannot reproduce this.  But see ?postscript and its section 'Encodings'.  You need to specify a PostScript encoding which contains your glyphs ... if there is one. Note too
> 
> See Also:
> 
>     ‘cairo_ps’ for another device that can produce PostScript.
> 
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