> On 12 Jul 2017, at 18:41 , Ilia Kats <ilia-k...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> FYI, I now have a second confirmed Mac OS system (with R 3.4.1) where the
> text is not rendered as italic.
Me three,
It affects cairo_pdf() only, plain pdf() renders the example just fine.
-pd
>
> Ilia
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Rd] italic font on cairo devices in R 3.4
> Date: 2017-07-12 05:48:24 +0200
> From: Paul Murrell
> To: ilia-kats, r-devel
>> Hi
>>
>> Do you have the 'fonts-texgyre' (Debian) package installed?
>> If not, does installing that help?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 07/07/17 20:30, Ilia Kats wrote:
>>> [cross-post from R-help]
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have the following problem: Since R 3.4.0, italic fonts rendered on Cairo
>>> devices appear pixelated. Here's a minimal example:
>>> cairo_pdf('test.pdf')
>>> plot(1:10, ylab=expression(italic(test)))
>>> dev.off()
>>>
>>> The same problem occurs with bolditalic, but not bold. I am using Debian
>>> Stretch. Several friends tried the same on their machines, another Debian
>>> machine has the same problem. On MacOSX the output was not pixelated, but
>>> it wasn't italic either. Ubuntu 16.04.2 xenial works fine. My impression is
>>> that R somehow can't find the proper font to use and falls back to
>>> something weird. Ideas?
>>>
>>> Note that I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me in replies.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Ilia
>>>
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