Can you try setting FC_DEBUG environment variable to see what fonts.conf
file it is loading, what fonts it tries to read, etc?  The fontconfig
library will print useful output to stderr when the right env bars are set.

Murray (mobile)
On Apr 15, 2014 7:57 PM, "Jeroen Ooms" <jeroen.ooms@stat.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Running on R 3.1 on my Mavericks laptop:
>
> options(bitmapType = "cairo");
> svg("cars.svg", width=11.69, height=8.27)
> plot(cars)
> dev.off()
>
> Gives a message: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file.
> The text in the svg seems heavily pixelated. The same happens when
> using png().
>
> IIRC, this did not happen on R 3.0, although I am now starting to
> doubt this. Is there anything on my machine that I try to
> update/reinstall to fix this?
>
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