Hi Ilia, I'm running Arch Linux, R 3.4.0.
Here's my test.pdf from your minimal example: https://ptpb.pw/HxsA.pdf It doesn't look pixelated to me... Here's a post that I wrote when I solved my last font problem in R, almost 2 years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40940331/5087283 I had to install some Microsoft font packages, which is sad, because there are some perfectly good free fonts that R could be using instead. It could be considered a bug that R requires Microsoft fonts, at least by default. However, does this even fix your problem? I.e. if you install the corresponding Debian Microsoft font packages, does the text appear anti-aliased? Frederick On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 10:30:46AM +0200, 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
