Possible mac-specific bug in svg (cairo) graphics
I think you got the corresponding response to your post before -
cairographics cannot locate an italic version of the font - switching
to a font which has the desired traits will produce the desired
output, e.g.:
svg("test.svg", width=4,4,8)
par(family="Arial")
plot.new()
text(0.5,0.5,labels=expression(italic("This should be in italics")))
dev.off()
Cheers,
S
On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:33 , Yan Wong wrote:
Hi,
Using the Mac OS X binary (R 2.8.1) from CRAN, generating SVG files
with italics produces bold text instead. I reported this to R-bugs,
and as it seems to be a Mac-specific problem, I was advised to
report it here.
As a test case, try viewing the test.svg file generated by
svg("test.svg", width=4,4,8)
plot.new()
text(0.5,0.5,labels=expression(italic("This should be in italics")))
dev.off()
On my system (OS X 10.4.11) viewing the SVG file either in Safari
3.2.1 or Firefox 2.0.0.9 shows bold text.
Cheers
Yan
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