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gdtools 0.4.1

  • specify systemfonts version shoud be 1.1.0 (#71)

gdtools 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2024-08-28

Changes

  • Move ‘gfonts’ and ‘curl’ in ‘Suggests’ dependencies so that it can be used with ‘webR’.

gdtools 0.3.7

CRAN release: 2024-03-05

Issues

  • fix htmlDependancy for Liberation Sans

gdtools 0.3.6

CRAN release: 2024-02-22

Changes

  • update ‘Google Fonts’ font database

gdtools 0.3.5

CRAN release: 2023-12-09

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.

gdtools 0.3.4

CRAN release: 2023-10-15

Changes

  • update to libcairo 1.18
  • use dontrun macro to avoid CRAN errors

gdtools 0.3.3

CRAN release: 2023-03-27

Issues

  • no more calls to gfonts::get_all_fonts(). This should enable usage for those with no access to website used by ‘gfonts’.

gdtools 0.3.2

CRAN release: 2023-03-13

New features

gdtools 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2023-02-17

New features

  • add ‘liberation-sans’ for having a fallback when off-line

gdtools 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2023-01-15

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.

gdtools 0.2.4

CRAN release: 2022-02-14

  • Windows: add support for ucrt toolchains

gdtools 0.2.3

CRAN release: 2021-01-06

  • fixes for configure script for M1 mac and solaris

gdtools 0.2.2

CRAN release: 2020-04-03

  • Small tweaks for configure script

gdtools 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2019-10-14

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

gdtools 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2019-09-03

  • refactor - package is now using package systemfonts instead of using fontconfig to locate fonts file

gdtools 0.1.9

CRAN release: 2019-06-18

  • keep locale intact when using various gdtools functions (fix #51)
  • Reuse magick FONTCONFIG_PATH if exists

gdtools 0.1.8

CRAN release: 2019-04-02

  • Windows: update cairo stack to rwinlib/cairo v1.15.10

gdtools 0.1.6

CRAN release: 2017-09-01

  • 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.

gdtools 0.1.5

CRAN release: 2017-08-08

  • increase tolerance in font metrics unit-tests as new version of freetype is slightly changing returned extents.

gdtools 0.1.4

CRAN release: 2017-03-17

  • New file src/registerDynamicSymbol.c to correctly register provided routines
  • a cleanup file to delete src/Makevars when package has been built

gdtools 0.1.3

CRAN release: 2016-11-11

  • 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.

gdtools 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2016-11-06

  • Fix a crash on some Linux platforms (hadley/svglite#80)

gdtools 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2016-11-01

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.

gdtools 0.1.0

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

gdtools 0.0.7

CRAN release: 2016-02-16

  • Fix to let OS X Snow Leopard produce binaries (Jeroen Ooms)

gdtools 0.0.6

CRAN release: 2015-11-25

  • Fix to prevent OSX CRAN builder from linking against old libs in /usr/local/lib (Jeroen Ooms)

gdtools 0.0.5

CRAN release: 2015-11-12

  • new function raster_write to write raster object to a png file
  • usage of testthat

gdtools 0.0.4

CRAN release: 2015-10-28

  • Fix for Mavericks CRAN builder (Jeroen Ooms)
  • Fix for solaris CRAN builder (Jeroen Ooms)