Changes in version 0.5.1 (2026-05-25) issues - font cache helpers now raise an explicit error when the cache directory cannot be created (e.g. unwritable parent), instead of showing a confusing file.copy() error (#82). Changes in version 0.5.0 (2026-02-09) New features - New font management API: font_set(), font_set_liberation(), and font_set_auto() provide a unified way to configure font aliases, register fonts with 'systemfonts', and generate 'htmlDependency' objects in a single step. Helper functions font_google() and font_liberation() declare individual font sources. changes - register_liberationsans(), register_liberationserif() and register_liberationmono() gain a name parameter to register Liberation fonts under a custom family name (e.g. "sans", "serif", "mono"). Default values are unchanged. - remove unused str_extents(). - remove C++ exported interface as no package uses LinkingTo: gdtools anymore. issues - fix face mapping in strings_sizes(): italic text was incorrectly measured as bold-italic (face 4 instead of face 3). - strings_sizes() now re-uses Cairo text measurement instead of systemfonts::string_metrics_dev(). Callers no longer need a ragg device open for accurate metrics. The measurements are accurate for devices that use Cairo or 'systemfonts' (ragg, svglite, ggiraph, cairo_pdf(), ...). Changes in version 0.4.4 (2025-10-06) - 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 Changes in version 0.4.2 (2025-03-27) - Windows: use cairo from Rtools if available on recent R versions Changes in version 0.4.1 (2024-11-04) - specify systemfonts version should be 1.1.0 (#71) Changes in version 0.4.0 (2024-08-28) Changes - Move 'gfonts' and 'curl' in 'Suggests' dependencies so that it can be used with 'webR'. Changes in version 0.3.7 (2024-03-05) Issues - fix htmlDependancy for Liberation Sans Changes in version 0.3.6 (2024-02-22) Changes - update 'Google Fonts' font database Changes in version 0.3.5 (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. Changes in version 0.3.4 (2023-10-15) Changes - update to libcairo 1.18 - use dontrun macro to avoid CRAN errors Changes in version 0.3.3 (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'. Changes in version 0.3.2 (2023-03-13) New features - new function installed_gfonts() to list installed font from 'Google' Changes in version 0.3.1 (2023-02-17) New features - add 'liberation-sans' for having a fallback when off-line Changes in version 0.3.0 (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. Changes in version 0.2.4 (2022-02-14) - Windows: add support for ucrt toolchains Changes in version 0.2.3 (2021-01-06) - fixes for configure script for M1 mac and solaris Changes in version 0.2.2 (2020-04-03) - Small tweaks for configure script Changes in version 0.2.1 (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 Changes in version 0.2.0 (2019-09-03) - refactor - package is now using package systemfonts instead of using fontconfig to locate fonts file Changes in version 0.1.9 (2019-06-18) - keep locale intact when using various gdtools functions (fix #51) - Reuse magick FONTCONFIG_PATH if exists Changes in version 0.1.8 (2019-04-02) - Windows: update cairo stack to rwinlib/cairo v1.15.10 Changes in version 0.1.6 (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. Changes in version 0.1.5 (2017-08-08) - increase tolerance in font metrics unit-tests as new version of freetype is slightly changing returned extents. Changes in version 0.1.4 (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 Changes in version 0.1.3 (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. Changes in version 0.1.2 (2016-11-06) - Fix a crash on some Linux platforms (hadley/svglite#80) Changes in version 0.1.1 (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. Changes in version 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 Changes in version 0.0.7 (2016-02-16) - Fix to let OS X Snow Leopard produce binaries (Jeroen Ooms) Changes in version 0.0.6 (2015-11-25) - Fix to prevent OSX CRAN builder from linking against old libs in /usr/local/lib (Jeroen Ooms) Changes in version 0.0.5 (2015-11-12) - new function raster_write to write raster object to a png file - usage of testthat Changes in version 0.0.4 (2015-10-28) - Fix for Mavericks CRAN builder (Jeroen Ooms) - Fix for solaris CRAN builder (Jeroen Ooms)