NEWS in package ‘extrafont’

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Changes in version 0.18

• Extrafont now supports .pfa files in addition to .pfb files. (thanks to Paul Murrell)
• 'loadfonts()' now has a new default device, '"all"', which loads fonts for all devices. (Thanks to Jeff Arnold)
• Properly handles the encoding of the path of the executable of Rttf2pt1. (Thanks to Gabriel Magno)

Changes in version 0.17

• Change \donttest{} entries to \dontrun{}.
• Suppress spurious warnings from readLines() in afm_get_info().
• Remove "Character" entry in AFM files because grDevices doesn't understand it. (Thanks to gvfarns)

Changes in version 0.16

• When importing fonts, don't create duplicate entries. (Fixes #31. Thanks to Dylan Schwilk)

Changes in version 0.15

• Fix handling of filenames with spaces in R <= 2.15.2.

Changes in version 0.14

• Workaround for a bug in ghostscript: if the fontmap path includes the string "Resources", it gives an error. Now, in this situation, a temporary symlink is made to the fontmap path. (Thanks to Kohske Takahashi)
• 'loadfonts(quiet=TRUE)' no longer displays warning messages.

Changes in version 0.13

• embed_fonts() now can handle filenames with spaces.
• A new function choose_fonts() has been added, which allows the user to specify a set of fonts, and it will return the first one available on the current system. (Thanks to Jeffrey Arnold)
• Imported fonts are now automatically registered when extrafont is attached. (Thanks to Jeffrey Arnold)

Changes in version 0.12

• One of the Linux font search paths has been changed to /usr/share/fonts, so that it works with Arch and Gentoo.
• extrafont now searches in the user font directory, ~/.fonts on Linux and BSD, and ~/Library/Fonts on Mac OS X.

Changes in version 0.11

• extrafont now ignores case when searching for font files.
• All metrics are imported from Truetype fonts. Previously, only the metrics for Latin1 were imported. This fixes problems where hyphens and minus signs were not allocated enough space. (Thanks to Brian Kriegler and Erik Iverson for their investigation of the problem. Fixes #11)
• The AFM (font metrics) files are now gzipped.

Changes in version 0.10

• A default Truetype font search path for FreeBSD has been added. (Thanks to Rainer Hurling)
• extrafont now also makes it easy to use fonts for bitmap output on Windows. Use 'loadfonts("win")' to register the fonts in Windows.
• loadfonts() now has a 'quiet' option to suppress output.