new font is ignored

[chrisdane]

Hi
I installed the font Droid Sans Mono but all the plots

family <- pdf.options()$family
# Helvetica
plotname <- paste0(family, ".pdf")
pdf(plotname)
plot(0, main=paste0("This is the ", family, " family"))
dev.off()
embedFonts(plotname, outfile=paste0("embed_", plotname))

font_import()
# ~/.fonts/DroidSansMono.ttf => <r_package_path>/extrafontdb/metrics/DroidSansMono
loadfonts()
# Registering font with R using pdfFonts(): Droid Sans Mono
fonts()
# ... "Droid Sans Mono" ...
family <- "Droid Sans Mono"
plotname <- paste0(family, ".pdf")
pdf(plotname, family=family)
plot(0, main=paste0("This should be the ", family, " family"))
dev.off()
embedFonts(plotname, outfile=paste0("embed_", plotname))

look identical. On a different machine, however, everything works as expected. Are there any checks to figure out the root of the problem?

Thanks a lot for help!
Chris

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