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Hi This appears to be happening (at least) because cairo_pdf() delays initialising a Cairo surface until BM_NewPage(), rather than initiliasing a Cairo surface in BM_Open(), and replayPlot() triggers some activity (set clip region) on the device BEFORE a new page is started (so the pointer to the Cairo surface is null, so BOOM). Not sure yet whether to blame replayPlot() for not starting

Hi I decided to blame cairo_pdf(). There is a fix in r-devel (r72242) that works for the reported case, plus some basic sanity checks. I could not complete 'make check-devel' because it was failing on reg-tests-1d.R ... > stopifnot(length(fd) == 10, identical(fd, format(dct <- as.POSIXct(dlt)))) Error: identical(fd, format(dct <- as.POSIXct(dl...