Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

systemfonts 1.3.12025-10-01

  • Fixed a sanitizer issue with converting variation axis names to tags

systemfonts 1.3.02025-09-30

  • Fixed a bug in the URL generation for Google Font imports
  • Added support for Bunny Fonts imports (#132)
  • Begin deprecation of bold argument in favour of weight throughout package
  • Improve messaging in require_font()
  • Fonts are automatically added to the session when an import is created (#131)
  • Fixed a bug in converting font weights as reported by macOS into ISO-style weight used by systemfonts and FreeType
  • require_font() now better handles lack of internet access
  • Added plot_glyph_stats() to provide visual explanation for various glyph measures
  • font_info() now returns the PostScript name of the font in the name column
  • Added support for variable fonts throughout the package. Other packages will need to be upgraded to take advantage of this. A new function font_variation() can be used to define coords for the variation axes
  • Fixed a bug in webfont download on Windows where fontfiles would become corrupted (#134)
  • Fixed an issue in textshaping where conflicting DLL names resulted in the R process inability to render text if textshaping was loaded first (textshaping#36)
  • Add a way to test if the freetype version matches between systemfonts and another package match
  • Added a name column to the output of glyph_info() to report the name of the glyph is provided by the font
  • Added a charmaps column to the output of font_info() to report the name of the character maps provided by the font
  • Cached faces are now reference counted when they are handed off to another package and it is the other packages’ responsibility to decrement the reference by calling FT_Done_Face() when finished with it.

systemfonts 1.2.32025-04-30

  • Added fonts_as_import() to create stylesheet urls for embedding of fonts in HTML and SVG
  • Added two C-level functions for getting glyph outline and bitmap information

systemfonts 1.2.22025-04-04

  • Fix compilation on macOS when the obj-c++ compiler fails to pick up the right obj-c++ version (#122)
  • add_fonts() now supports urls as well as file paths (#124)

systemfonts 1.2.12025-01-20

  • Fix a memory issue when adding new fonts with add_fonts()
  • Default to not downloading woff2 files from Google Fonts since it is poorly supported on many systems
  • Fixed a bug in get_from_font_squirrel() where the font wasn’t placed in the user specified location

systemfonts 1.2.02025-01-16

  • Providing the font name as the family should now result in better matching
  • Improved the fallback options for Windows so that as many scripts are now covered
  • Add infrastructure to add uninstalled font files to the search path used for font matching
  • Add facilities to download and register fonts from web repositories such as Google Fonts and Font Squirrel
  • Add require_font() that does it’s best to ensure that a given font is available after being called.
  • Added functions for extracting outline and raster representation of glyphs

systemfonts 1.1.02024-05-15

  • match_fonts() have been added as a vectorized and generalized version of match_font(). In the process match_font() has been deprecated in favour of match_fonts()
  • Two internal functions for converting weight and width names to integers have been exported
  • Fix a segfault on macOS when the system encounters a corrupted font collection (#113)

systemfonts 1.0.62024-03-07

systemfonts 1.0.42022-02-11

  • Use Courier New as default mono font on macOS instead of Courier to avoid issues between FreeType and Courier (#105)

systemfonts 1.0.42022-02-11

  • Provide a fallback solution to the setup of the CRAN windows builder so that fonts can be discovered (#87)

systemfonts 1.0.32021-10-13

  • Avoid warning when including the systemfonts header (#77)
  • Fix size selection of non-scalable fonts when the requested size is bigger than the available
  • Fix compilation bug when systemfont is used in C packages (#76)

systemfonts 1.0.22021-05-11

  • Ensure compitability with freetype <= 2.4.11 (#70, @jan-glx)
  • Prepare for UCRT compilation

systemfonts 1.0.12021-02-09

  • Fix a bug in font matching on Windows when matching monospace fonts
  • Fix a bug in reset_font_cache() on mac that would cause a system crash if the cache was not filled in advance (#67)

systemfonts 1.0.02021-02-01

  • Tweak size determination for non-scalable fonts
  • Fix bug when switching between scalable and non-scalable fonts in the cache
  • Add utility for querying font fallbacks at both the R and C level
  • Add C-level API for finding emoji embeddings in strings
  • Add utility for getting weight of font from C code
  • Add utility for getting family name of font from C code
  • Add font weight and width to the output of font_info()

systemfonts 0.3.22020-09-29

  • Fix compiled code for old R versions
  • Changes to comply with next cpp11 version

systemfonts 0.3.12020-09-08

  • Fixed warnings on CRAN LTO machine

systemfonts 0.3.02020-09-01

  • Added get_cached_face() so that other packages might retrieve FT_Face objects from the cache.
  • Adapted cpp11
  • Add infrastructure for setting OpenType font features on a registered font with either register_font() or the new register_variant(), along with the font_feature() function.

systemfonts 0.2.32020-06-09

  • Replace the buggy Freetype cache subsystem with own implementation
  • Fix indexing bug in glyph_metrics()

systemfonts 0.2.22020-05-14

  • Fix remaining valgrind issues by fixing the included font-manager code
  • Rewrite the text shaping algorithm to make it more future proof
  • Work around a nasty freetype bug in their cache subsystem

systemfonts 0.2.12020-04-29

  • Various fixes to the correctness of compiled code

systemfonts 0.2.02020-04-16

  • Add string_widths_dev() and string_metrics_dev() to request the current graphic device for string widths and metrics.
  • Add system for registering non-system fonts for look-up.
  • systemfonts will now detect user-installed fonts on Windows (possible after the 1806 update)
  • Font lookup is now cached for faster performance. The caching will get flushed when new fonts are added to the registry, or manually with reset_font_cache()
  • Systemfonts now provide querying of font information with font_info() and glyph_info()
  • Basic string shaping is now provided with shape_string()
  • Line width calculation is now available with string_width() (ignores presence of newlines, use shape_string() for more complicated strings)
  • Added str_split_emoji() for splitting of strings into substrings of emoji and non-emoji glyphs
  • Provide a header file for easy use from within C in other packages
  • Fix memory management issues on Mac
  • Fix handling of erroneous font files on windows

systemfonts 0.1.12019-07-01

  • Fix compilation on systems with a very old fontconfig version (Solaris)

systemfonts 0.1.02019-06-28

  • First version with match_font() and system_fonts() capabilities. More to come.
  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.