[R] Failure to produce italics in jpeg

Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Sun Jan 24 18:06:06 CET 2010



Dennis Fisher wrote:
> 
> 
> Using R 2.10.1 in OS X (Snow Leopard), I created JPEG documents that  
> were intended to include italicized text.  In the JPEG versions, the  
> italics appear in bold-face.  The identical code (except for the call  
> to the device) yields italics in PDF.  A minimal example is:
> 
> JPEG version:
>> jpeg(file="plot.jpeg", pointsize=12, bg="white", res=150, quality=100)
>> plot(1,1)
>> mtext(bquote(italic(P) < .(0.005)))
>> dev.off()
> 
> 

Seems to be a Mac problem, works ok for me under Windows. You might report
this as a bug, but a quick workaround would be to try CairoJPEG instead.

Dieter


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