From b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk  Thu May  1 15:23:13 2008
From: b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk (Barry Rowlingson)
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 14:23:13 +0100
Subject: [Rd] X11cairo with antialias="none" buggy under MacOS?
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Joerg van den Hoff wrote:

> X11(antialias="none")
> 
> I obviously am going to plot to the screen device. where
> a line width below one pixel does'nt make sense to me.
> 
> what am I missing?
>

  The new "cairo" X11 device with antialiasing off can indeed look awful 
, but if you really don't want antialiasing then try using the good old 
non-cairo X11 device with the 'type' argument:

  > x11(type="Xlib")
  > plot(1:10)


Barry



[Rd] X11cairo with antialias="none" buggy under MacOS?
Barry Rowlingson