[Tikzdevice-bugs] Arial and Other Things

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

Hi Lorenzo,

A minimal example of this would indeed help- it would be a perfect test to
see if v. 0.5.0 is ready for CRAN as this is the sort of problem that
version was designed to solve.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Cameron,
> And thanks for your suggestion. However, I am experiencing a problem:
> when I redraw the figure (i.e. pdflatex tex file with the tikzpicture
> wrapped up in the lines you gave me) there are some slight modifications
> (e.g. in 10^3 the "3" moves too close to the "10") that spoil the plot.
> I am using ggplot2+tikzDevice 0.4.8 (font size branch) and I wonder if
> any latest version of tikzDevice would solve the problem.
> I can try to provide you with a minimal example if needed.
> Cheers
>
> Lorenzo
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 13:03 -0600, Cameron Bracken wrote:
> > > Again I am not really reporting a bug but rather asking a question
> about
> > > tikzDevice,
> >
> > The name is a bit misleading but this is certainly the best place to
> > reach both us as you have found. :)
> >
> > >namely how can I select arial as the font in a standalone
> > > figure generated via tikzDevice?
> >
> > wrap the tikzpicture in:
> >
> > {\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont
> > ....
> > }
> >
> > This actually selects helvetica but who can tell the difference anyway?
> ;)
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > And finally, (sorry for being annoying) is tikzDevice 0.5 going to be
> > > release before September?
> >
> > Highly likely.
> >
> > -Cameron
>
>
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