[R-sig-Debian] Default R Font Changed After Upgrade to Debian 8

[Johannes Ranke]

Dario,

thanks for the additional information. I can not reproduce this here, the 
fonts look nice and smooth on my system, which otherwise has pretty much the 
same characteristics as your system, with the same cario version, but some 
small, presumably irrelevant differences in the installed packages:

dpkg -l | grep cairo
ii  libcairo-gobject2:amd64                1.14.0-2.1                           
amd64        Cairo 2D vector graphics library (GObject library)
ii  libcairo-script-interpreter2:amd64     1.14.0-2.1                           
amd64        Cairo 2D vector graphics library (script interpreter)
ii  libcairo2:amd64                        1.14.0-2.1                           
amd64        Cairo 2D vector graphics library
ii  libcairo2-dev                          1.14.0-2.1                           
amd64        Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library
ii  libcairomm-1.0-1                       1.10.0-1.1                           
amd64        C++ wrappers for Cairo (shared libraries)
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0:amd64              1.36.8-3                             
amd64        Layout and rendering of internationalized text
ii  libpixman-1-0:amd64                    0.32.6-3                             
amd64        pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo
ii  libpixman-1-dev                        0.32.6-3                             
amd64        pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo (development files)
ii  python-cairo                           1.8.8-1+b2                           
amd64        Python bindings for the Cairo vector graphics library
ii  python-gi-cairo                        3.14.0-1                             
amd64        Python Cairo bindings for the GObject library


Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Samstag, 2. Januar 2016, 00:00:07 schrieb Dario Strbenac:
> Good day,
> 
> The code is :
> 
> png("grainy.png", h = 600, w = 900)
> plot(1:10, main = "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", cex.main = 4, cex.lab = 4,
> cex.axis = 4) dev.off()
> 
> and the server has the characteristics :
> > getOption("bitmapType")
> 
> [1] "cairo"
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> 
> R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C           LC_TIME=C.UTF-8
>  [4] LC_COLLATE=C.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=C.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=C.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=C.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C              LC_ADDRESS=C
> [10] LC_TELEPHONE=C         LC_MEASUREMENT=C.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> > capabilities()
> 
>        jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk         X11        aqua
>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE
>    http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       iconv
>        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE
>         NLS     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double     libcurl
>        TRUE       FALSE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE
> 
> ~$ dpkg -l | grep cairo
> ii  libcairo-gobject2:amd64                                     1.14.0-2.1  
>                            amd64        Cairo 2D vector graphics library
> (GObject library) ii  libcairo-perl                                        
>       1.104-2                                 amd64        Perl interface
> to the Cairo graphics library ii  libcairo-script-interpreter2:amd64       
>                   1.14.0-2.1                              amd64       
> Cairo 2D vector graphics library (script interpreter) ii  libcairo2:amd64  
>                                           1.14.0-2.1                       
>       amd64        Cairo 2D vector graphics library ii  libcairo2-dev      
>                                         1.14.0-2.1                         
>     amd64        Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library ii 
> libmono-cairo2.0-cil                                        3.2.8+dfsg-10  
>                         all          Mono Cairo library (for CLI 2.0) ii 
> libmono-cairo4.0-cil                                        3.2.8+dfsg-10  
>                         all          Mono Cairo library (for CLI 4.0) ii 
> libpangocairo-1.0-0:amd64                                   1.36.8-3       
>                         amd64        Layout and rendering of
> internationalized text ii  libpixman-1-0:amd64                             
>            0.32.6-3                                amd64       
> pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo ii  libpixman-1-dev             
>                                0.32.6-3                               
> amd64        pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo (development files)
> ii  python-cairo                                                1.8.8-1+b2 
>                             amd64        Python bindings for the Cairo
> vector graphics library ii  python-gi-cairo                                
>             3.14.0-1                                amd64        Python
> Cairo bindings for the GObject library ii  python3-cairo                   
>                            1.10.0+dfsg-4+b1                        amd64   
>     Python 3 bindings for the Cairo vector graphics library ii 
> python3-gi-cairo                                            3.14.0-1       
>                         amd64        Python 3 Cairo bindings for the
> GObject library
> 
> I recently noticed it also affects other software, like Firefox internet
> browser.
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Dario Strbenac
> PhD Student
> University of Sydney
> Camperdown NSW 2050
> Australia
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