News for Package "sysfonts"

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.9

NEW FEATURES

• Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

• Updated the linking on Windows for upcoming version of Rtools, thanks to Tomas Kalibera.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.8

BUG FIXES

• font_add() now gives a warning if the parameters are not length-one vectors.

• C functions are now called using registered native symbols.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.7

NEW FEATURES

• Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

• Updated the documentation for font_add_google().

• Fixed the bug that db_cache = FALSE is not effective in the second call of font_add_google().

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.6

BUG FIXES

• Supported UCRT on Windows, thanks to Tomas Kalibera and Uwe Ligges.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.5

BUG FIXES

• Fixed the configure script, thanks to Prof. Brian Ripley.

• Fixed compiler warnings.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.4

NEW FEATURES

• Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

• Added a new search path in the configure script (#17).

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.3

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a string comparison issue in the configure script (#14).

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.2

NEW FEATURES

• Added a new system font path for macOS, suggested by Athanasia Mowinckel (#13).

• Updated Google Fonts database.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8.1

NEW FEATURES

• Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

• Updated the download method for installation on Windows.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.8

NEW FEATURES

• Now font_files() can report more information of the fonts, for example the family name, font face, version, and PostScript font name, suggested by pull request #7 of the binb package.

• Updated Google Fonts database.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.3

NEW FEATURES

• Added function font_info_google() to retrieve metadata of Google Fonts (#7), thanks to @camille-s.

• Added an argument db_cache to font_info_google(), font_families_google(), and font_add_google() to force using Google Fonts API to retrieve font metadata, suggested by issue #23 of the showtext package.

• Updated Google Fonts database.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.2

NEW FEATURES

• Updated Google Fonts database.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed installation problems on Windows.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.7.1

BUG FIXES

• Fixed the use of one deprecated function.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.7

API CHANGES

• All previous API functions now have aliases replacing the dots with underscores in the function names, for example font_add() is equivalent to font.add().

• The "underscore" naming is preferred, and the "dot" version will be gradually deprecated.

NEW FEATURES

• Added a "handle" parameter to font_add_google() in order to support proxies (#4), thanks to @Sdurier.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.6

NEW FEATURES

• Updated the included Liberation fonts to version 1.07.4.

• Updated Google Fonts database.

• sysfonts now uses the curl package to fetch Google Fonts files.

• font.add() now supports tilde path expansion, for example font.add("xkcd", "~/xkcd.ttf") (#1), thanks to @r2evans.

BUG FIXES

• Added a 'cleanup' script per CRAN policies.

• Registered native routines per CRAN policies.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.5

BUG FIXES

• More robust way to fetch font list.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.4

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a problem reported by Philippe Massicotte involving incomplete downloading of font files.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.3

NEW FEATURES

• No longer prints message at start-up.

• Now has faster loading of Google Fonts list.

Changes in sysfonts version 0.2

NEW FEATURES

• sysfonts can now add fonts from Google Fonts (https://fonts.google.com/).

Changes in sysfonts version 0.1

NEW FEATURES

• Initial release.