Inconsistency between generated pdf and png files

[henrikmidtiby]

I have observed an inconsistency between the generated pdf and png files in the plot below.
In the plot I insert an annotate object with the type 'label'; where the width of the black line around the label is set to zero.
This works fine when exporting to a png file.
But when I export the plot to a pdf file, the black line is still present.

library(tidyverse)
#> ── Attaching packages ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse 1.2.1 ──
#> ✔ ggplot2 2.2.1     ✔ purrr   0.2.4
#> ✔ tibble  1.4.1     ✔ dplyr   0.7.4
#> ✔ tidyr   0.7.2     ✔ stringr 1.2.0
#> ✔ readr   1.1.1     ✔ forcats 0.2.0
#> ── Conflicts ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
#> ✖ dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
#> ✖ dplyr::lag()    masks stats::lag()
p <- tibble() %>%
  ggplot() + 
  annotate('label', x = 1, y = 0, 
           label='is there a border around this label?', 
           label.size=0)

# In the generated pdf file, there is a black border around the inserted label.
# I don't think that this is the intended behaviour.
ggsave('failure.pdf', p, 
       height = 3, width=7)

# In the generated png file, there is no border around the inserted label.
# I think that this is the intended behaviour.
ggsave('failure.png', p, 
       height = 3, width=7)

[henrikmidtiby]

Generated png file

Genrated pdf file (which contains the error)
failure.pdf

[batpigandme]

That is strange. For convenience/browsability, here's a picture of the pdf.

[hadley]

Any difference in rendering between graphics devices is unfortunately outside the scope of ggplot2

[wch]

This is probably due to a bug in grid's roundrectGrob. Here's an example that has a similar problem:

library(grid)

png("test.png")
grid.newpage()
l <- grid.roundrect(width=.5, height=.5,
  gp = gpar(col = "black", fill = "grey90", lwd = 0)
)
grid.draw(l)
dev.off()

pdf("test.pdf")
grid.newpage()
l <- grid.roundrect(width=.5, height=.5,
  gp = gpar(col = "black", fill = "grey90", lwd = 0)
)
grid.draw(l)
dev.off()

[wch]

Actually, now that I look at this some more, I believe the problem is that PDF renderers often display a hairline for zero-width lines. For example, this has a visible line:

pdf("test.pdf")
plot(cars, type = "l", lwd = 0)
dev.off()

The reason that this hasn't been a problem with other geoms is because many of them have a default color of NA, which results in no line at all. Here's GeomRect, and here's GeomLabel.

I suggest changing GeomLabel to set the col to NA when label.size is 0.

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