On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:19 +0100, Paul Bivand wrote: > I checked with my KDE 4.2 (Mandriva 2009 system, kde.org binaries) > with no font rendering issues in running demo(graphics). > > It is quite possible that pango was not installed with Fedora (as it > is unnecessary for KDE 4.2 systems). Installing the relevant rpm may > fix things.
The pango RPM should have been installed with R, as R requires the pango and pangocairo libraries that it provides: [mar...@seurat ~]$ rpm -q --requires R-core | grep pango - libpango-1.0.so.0()(64bit) libpangocairo-1.0.so.0()(64bit) > The packaging of the Fedora 2.8.1 rpm may need to take this into > account - if compiling, you'd have discovered at configure stage. > > Paul Bivand > > Paul Bivand > > 2009/4/1 Martyn Plummer <plum...@iarc.fr>: > > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 18:36 -0700, dfermin wrote: > >> Nope. I checked this. Both those fonts are installed. > > > > Well it is some kind of font rendering problem. The default device is > > the Cairo X11 device, which uses the Pango layout engine for font > > rendering. > > > > If you set the environment variable FC_DEBUG to 1 before launching your > > R session, you will get some debugging information. It is very verbose, > > but we only need to see this bit: > > > > First font Pattern has 15 elts (size 15) > > family: "Nimbus Sans L"(w) > > style: "Regular"(w) > > slant: 0(i)(w) > > weight: 80(i)(w) > > width: 100(i)(w) > > foundry: "urw"(w) > > file: "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb"(w) > > index: 0(i)(w) > > outline: FcTrue(w) > > scalable: FcTrue(w) > > > > > > > >> > >> Martyn Plummer-2 wrote: > >> > > >> > Quoting dfermin <dfer...@umich.edu>: > >> >> > >> >> Hello. > >> >> > >> >> I've got a new workstation running Fedora 10 linux and I use the KDE 4.2 > >> >> desktop which uses some kind of new desktop environment called 'plasma'. > >> >> > >> >> If I start up R and generate a plot (for example: hist(rnorm(10000, > >> >> mean=0, > >> >> sd=1), breaks=100) ). The plot appears but all text (the x/y axes, > >> >> title, > >> >> etc..) is replaced by a square box. No font is rendered at all. > >> >> > >> >> Has anyone else got this problem? If so do you have a work around or a > >> >> solution? > >> >> > >> >> I'm using R version 2.8.1 installed from the Fedora 10 repositories if > >> >> that > >> >> helps. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks in advance. > >> > > >> > It sounds like you are missing some fonts. Check that the "urw-fonts" and > >> > "liberation-fonts" RPMs are installed. > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message and its attachments are strictly confidenti...{{dropped:8}} > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and its attachments are strictly confidenti...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.