italic font on cairo devices in R 3.4

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