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- specify systemfonts version shoud be 1.1.0 (#71)
Changes
- Move ‘gfonts’ and ‘curl’ in ‘Suggests’ dependencies so that it can
be used with ‘webR’.
Issues
- fix htmlDependancy for Liberation Sans
Changes
- update ‘Google Fonts’ font database
Issues
- fix -Wformat-security issue under r-devel
New features
install_gfont_script() can now directly generate a
script file ready to be executed to install a ‘Google Font’, use
argument file.
Changes
- update to libcairo 1.18
- use dontrun macro to avoid CRAN errors
Issues
- no more calls to
gfonts::get_all_fonts(). This should
enable usage for those with no access to website used by ‘gfonts’.
New features
- new function
installed_gfonts() to list installed font
from ‘Google’
New features
- add ‘liberation-sans’ for having a fallback when off-line
New features
- The package now allows to download and work with Google Fonts thanks
to the ‘gfonts’ and ‘systemfonts’ package. This is very useful for
managing fonts with graphics produced with ‘ragg’, ‘svglite’ and
‘ggiraph’ but also with ‘flextable’ tables. Finally, it is possible to
easily embed these fonts in HTML documents.
- Windows: add support for ucrt toolchains
- fixes for configure script for M1 mac and solaris
- Small tweaks for configure script
issues
- Change font_family_exists so that it only check a family exists in
family column returned by systemfonts::system_fonts()
- fix a memory leak
- refactor - package is now using package systemfonts instead of using
fontconfig to locate fonts file
- keep locale intact when using various gdtools functions (fix
#51)
- Reuse magick FONTCONFIG_PATH if exists
- Windows: update cairo stack to rwinlib/cairo v1.15.10
- update with Rcpp 0.12.12
- new function
glyphs_match to test whether glyphs in
strings are all existing in a font table or not.
- increase tolerance in font metrics unit-tests as new version of
freetype is slightly changing returned extents.
- New file src/registerDynamicSymbol.c to correctly register provided
routines
- a cleanup file to delete src/Makevars when package has been
built
- Add set_dummy_conf() and unset_dummy_conf() to set a minimalistic
Fontconfig configuration. Useful to speed up cache building on Appveyor
or CRAN.
- skip tests that need fontquiver when not installed.
- Fix a crash on some Linux platforms (hadley/svglite#80)
updates
- examples from sys_fonts and match_family are marked as donttest as
their first run can be slow if no font caches are existing.
new functions
- sys_fonts: get system fonts details.
- font_family_exists: test if a given font family name can be matched
exactly
- match_family: find best family match for a given Fontconfig
pattern
- match_font: returns font information for a given Fontconfig
pattern
- base64_string_export: encode a string in base64
- version_cairo: runtime version of the Cairo library
- version_freetype: runtime version of the FreeType library
- version_fontconfig: compile-time version of the Fontconfig
library
updates
- CONFIGURE file has been updated with Homebrew new repo (Jeroen
Ooms)
- GPL-3 license file has been added
- CairoContext now uses Fontconfig to find system fonts
- CairoContext now supports user-defined font files
- Fix to let OS X Snow Leopard produce binaries (Jeroen Ooms)
- Fix to prevent OSX CRAN builder from linking against old libs in
/usr/local/lib (Jeroen Ooms)
- new function raster_write to write raster object to a png file
- usage of testthat
- Fix for Mavericks CRAN builder (Jeroen Ooms)
- Fix for solaris CRAN builder (Jeroen Ooms)
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