[Rd] italic font on cairo devices in R 3.4

[Ilia Kats]

Hi Paul,

thanks for your suggestion. No, I did not have that package installed, 
but installing it didn't change anything, unfortunately.

Cheers, Ilia



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Rd] italic font on cairo devices in R 3.4
Date: 2017-07-12 05:48:24 +0200
From: Paul Murrell
To: ilia-kats, r-devel
> Hi
>
> Do you have the 'fonts-texgyre' (Debian) package installed?
> If not, does installing that help?
>
> Paul
>
> On 07/07/17 20:30, Ilia Kats wrote:
>> [cross-post from R-help]
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have the following problem: Since R 3.4.0, italic fonts rendered on 
>> Cairo devices appear pixelated. Here's a minimal example:
>> cairo_pdf('test.pdf')
>> plot(1:10, ylab=expression(italic(test)))
>> dev.off()
>>
>> The same problem occurs with bolditalic, but not bold. I am using 
>> Debian Stretch. Several friends tried the same on their machines, 
>> another Debian machine has the same problem. On MacOSX the output was 
>> not pixelated, but it wasn't italic either. Ubuntu 16.04.2 xenial 
>> works fine. My impression is that R somehow can't find the proper 
>> font to use and falls back to something weird. Ideas?
>>
>> Note that I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me in replies.
>>
>> Cheers, Ilia
>>
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-- 
Ha. I say let them try -- even vi+perl couldn't match the power of an
editor which is, after all, its own OS. ;-)
-- Johnie Ingram on debian-devel, about linking vim with libperl.so