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extrafont (version 0.15)

Tools for using fonts

Description

Tools to using fonts other than the standard PostScript fonts. This package makes it easy to use system TrueType fonts and with PDF or PostScript output files, and with bitmap output files in Windows. extrafont can also be used with fonts packaged specifically to be used with, such as the fontcm package, which has Computer Modern PostScript fonts with math symbols. See https://github.com/wch/extrafont for instructions and examples.

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install.packages('extrafont')

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License

GPL-2

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Maintainer

Winston Chang

Last Published

August 30th, 2013

Functions in extrafont (0.15)

font_import

Import system fonts
extrafont

extrafont package
fonts

Show the fonts that are registered in the font table (and available for embedding)
loadfonts

Reads the fonttable database and registers those fonts with R
ttf_import

Imports all TrueType fonts in a directory and all subdirectories
embed_fonts

Embeds fonts that are listed in the local Fontmap
font_install

Install a font package and register it in the fonts database
fonttable

Returns the full font table
font_addpackage

Add font from an installed package to fonts database
choose_font

Choose an installed font from a list