Re: [R-sig-Fedora] evince not showing "greek" and "math" in *.pdf plots

2024-03-11 Thread IƱaki Ucar
Martin, I wouldn't rule out an R issue yet. Fonts are... tricky. So I'm cc'ing Paul Murrell here. I tried several viewers here and I see the following: Chrome, Firefox and Libreoffice Draw show the symbols; however, evince, okular and xournal++ agree on **not** showing the symbols. **If** there

[R-sig-Fedora] evince not showing "greek" and "math" in *.pdf plots

2024-03-11 Thread Martin Maechler
This problem has bugged me for several years now, and our own IT staff has tried a few things, but then never cared enough to persist fixing it. It *is* a bug in evince, the standard pdf viewer on Fedora and IIUC also quite few other Linux distributions, and *not* a bug in R; hence I am asking

Re: [R-sig-Fedora] evince not showing "greek" and "math" in *.pdf plots

2024-03-11 Thread Tim Taylor
Hi Martin Probably not the answer you're looking for but on the latest Fedora 39 (workstation edition) both locally, and on a freshly installed VM (with just R-core installed), all fonts render correctly for me in evince. $ evince --version GNOME Document Viewer 45.0 $ R --version R version

Re: [R-sig-Fedora] evince not showing "greek" and "math" in *.pdf plots

2024-03-11 Thread Martin Maechler
> Tim Taylor > on Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:42:35 + writes: > Hi Martin > Probably not the answer you're looking for but on the latest Fedora 39 (workstation edition) both locally, and on a freshly installed VM (with just R-core installed), all fonts render correctly for me

Re: [R-sig-Fedora] evince not showing "greek" and "math" in *.pdf plots

2024-03-11 Thread Tim Taylor
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024, at 1:15 PM, Martin Maechler wrote: > > Tim Taylor > > on Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:42:35 + writes: > > > Hi Martin > > Probably not the answer you're looking for but on the latest Fedora 39 > (workstation edition) both locally, and on a freshly installed

Re: [R-sig-Fedora] evince not showing "greek" and "math" in *.pdf plots

2024-03-11 Thread pstils
Hi Martin and Tim, I also have this bug. Though I think not necessarily with all the same fonts as Martin. Using Martin's code: https://imgur.com/a/ILUoe3H Fedora 39, Evince 45.0 It's a bug with Evince. I think. I think it's substituting in a font set that doesn't have all the required