Changelog • gdtools

add tools to use fonts ‘Liberation Serif’ and ‘Liberation Mono’.
deprecate set_dummy_conf() that should be removed from the package in a later version.
remove raster_* functions not used anymore

Windows: use cairo from Rtools if available on recent R versions

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)