I apologize for not going in to too much detail-I didn't want to confuse people
with the gory details of what I'm trying to do (trying to make a portable R
installation bundled in to a mac app, among other things). I am on a mac,
Mountain Lion. Anyhow, I figured out the problem was with the paths pango looks
uses to search for font configuration files. I solved it by writing a script
that sets these paths at run-time.
George
On Apr 24, 2013, at 7:45 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Apr 24, 2013, at 7:29 AM, George Dietz wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having a problem where sometimes fonts for text in plots don't get
>> rendered-the text just shows up as boxes. If I call R from a certain
>> directory the problem goes away, otherwise the fonts don't render (but plots
>> get made). In both cases, my PANGO_RC and FONTCONFIG_FILE do not change…
>
> Offering the OS details is more courteous than omitting them. (And there are
> several other courtesies expected of you listed in the Fine Posting Guide.)
> If this happens to be on a Mac, it may mean your screen fonts are corrupt.
> You can see their names with: names(quartzFonts()). Using Fontbook.app will
> sometimes reveal that there are two copies of one of the screen graphics
> fonts and that one of them displays as blanks. These should be deleted with
> Fontbook.app.
>
> --
>
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
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