Re: [R] Antialiasing plots and text on different devices

2009-06-04 Thread Winston Chang
Update: The font situation on Macs with cairo and Cairo is a little worse that I initially thought. I re-generated the images on a different Mac. The previous Mac had OS 10.4 and this one has 10.5. The fonts from cairo and Cairo have changed. Now there are italics and bold italics where there shoul

[R] Antialiasing plots and text on different devices

2009-06-04 Thread Winston Chang
I have a question about antialiasing when R generates bitmaps. (This follows a thread on the ggplot2 mailing list.) I mostly use R on Linux, although I sometimes use it in Mac and Windows as well. On Linux, I've found that plotting shapes 15-18 via cairo results in bad-looking output. The points a