[Rd] italic font on cairo devices in R 3.4

[Paul Murrell]

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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