On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Al Roark <hrbuil...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All: > I have some basic questions about Cairo graphics engine. I'm trying to use > the Cairo package to produce PDF output, mainly because I perceive it to be > easy to use with a wide variety of fonts. > You may also want to try cairo_pdf() that, I think, supports Windows since 2.13.0.
> But right now, I'm stuck trying to figure out what fonts are available to be > used with Cairo, specifically the CairoPDF function. I've been able to > successfully produce some test PDFs with grid graphics and CairoPDF (and the > font "Georgia"), so my basic setup is working. > I've tried to experiment with the CairoFonts() function but get the message: > "the R Cairo package was not installed with fontconfig. Please consider > installing the cairo graphics engine (www.cairographics.org) with freetype > and fontconfig support" > I'm not quite sure how to interpret this. My version of Cairo comes from the > GTK+ 2.22 bundle from the GTK+ Project website. > It is possible that you need to install fontconfig separately. On Linux it is a separate package, but I know that it is widely used in LaTeX, so it might be possible that you need to have a LaTeX distribution installed, such as miktex. Or install LyX (complete); this should also take care of fontconfig. But these are mere guesses. Regards Liviu > I'm running R 2.12.2 on Windows 7. > Any feedback or direction toward informative resources is much appreciated. > Cheers,Al > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail ______________________________________________ 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.
