[R-SIG-Mac] [R] Mac OS X R.app has trouble rendering certain fonts.

[Marc Schwartz]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote:

> I noticed this running a few graphics demos the other day.
> 
> In particular the plotmath and the persp graphics demos, certain fonts
> don't seem to render on the demos.
> 
> The plotmath demo displays certain math equations on a quartz window
> that don't render properly, and the persp demo displays a 3D model of
> a mountain with labels on the graph rendered in a certain font. (None
> of the data labels render at all.)
> 
> This problem appeared recently, (like last week), and has not happened
> before. I'm fairly new to using the R gui and R in general, so I don't
> really know where to check if I have the proper true type fonts
> available on my computer or if it is a problem within R itself. This
> doesn't appear to be a problem with the functioning of R itself, just
> an inability for it to render certain fonts on graphical displays. I
> just want to fix it now before I use it in a major project that
> requires the rendering of fonts onto the screen for presentations
> etc...


You might want to review this reply by Simon to a similar post recently:

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-June/007531.html

Another resource that might be relevant:

  http://www.maclife.com/article/news/howto_clear_your_macs_font_cache

HTH,

Marc Schwartz