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gdtools 0.1.6

• 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

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

gdtools 0.1.4

• 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

• 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

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

gdtools 0.1.1

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

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

gdtools 0.0.6

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

gdtools 0.0.5

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

gdtools 0.0.4

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

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