On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Michael Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Revision r44621 supports (in a limited way) cairo 1.0 and hence I believe >> vanilla FC5 -- I found what purports to be a vanilla FC5 box and it works >> quite well there. >> >> Two people have reported that the svg(), cairo-pdf() and cairo-ps() >> devices produce blank (but not empty) files. I was able to confirm that >> on Debian etch (cairo 1.2.4). They do work on cairo 1.4.14 (F8) and >> better on a 1.5.10 snapshot. >> > > My intuition is that there is a missing call to cairo_show_page(). I believe > this became unnecessary in the 1.4.x series. This should probably be called > any time there is new page (after the first) and when the device is closed.
Yes, you are quite right (and of course the 1.5.x docs I was reading didn't say it was needed). Unfortunately, that only defers the problems as fonts are not handled correctly in 1.2.x, at least on my test machine. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel