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The aim was to provide a font that is metric compatible (i.e. the glyphs occupy the same physical space) with Microsoft’s Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New fonts that are prevalent in the Windows world. The Liberation Fonts suite for example is one such set of fonts, the creation of which was sponsored by Red Hat. What is doubly frustrating about this is that there are entirely free and open fonts that could be mandated by PLOS ONE. Secondly, you need to work very hard to use these fonts in some applications, including R as we’ll see, simply because those applications were built to use different or open font definitions.
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#Arial font ttf install#
But the use of Arial! facepalm…įirstly, you may not legally be able to install these fonts on your computer (even though they are available in several forms on the internet) unless you have a licence for a Microsoft product that ships them - though given the dominance of Windows in the consumer PC market, most people will have a valid Windows licence somewhere. The choice of EPS is a pain, but can be worked round relatively easily and R can output to an EPS file via the postscript() device, as long as you follow a few basic guidelines, which I’ll cover below.
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Yes they make you jump through a lot of hoops getting your figures and tables just so, and I can appreciate why they want some control over this in terms of the look and feel of the journal. Despite the refreshing change that the journal PLOS ONE represents in terms of open access and an refreshing change to the stupidity that is quality/novelty selection by the two or three people that review a paper, it’s submission requirements are far less progressive.