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doconv 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2026-02-14

Features

  • New exported function run_in_shiny_app() to run an arbitrary command against a live Shiny application. Manages the app lifecycle (start, wait for HTTP readiness, stop) via processx; the command to execute is passed through ... to processx::run().
  • New exported functions expect_snapshot_ggplots() and expect_snapshot_flextables() for visual regression testing of ggplot2 plots and flextable objects within testthat test suites.
  • New exported helper skip_if_not_snapshot_png() to skip tests when snapshot dependencies (ragg, gdtools) are not available.
  • to_miniature() gains ncol and ncol_landscape parameters for easier page layout. ncol groups pages N-per-row; adding ncol_landscape enables orientation-aware layout where portrait and landscape pages use different column counts.

Issues

  • Forward slashes in file paths are now converted to backslashes before injection into PowerShell scripts, fixing failures when paths contain spaces (#5).
  • PowerShell scripts now use try/finally to guarantee Word.Quit() and PowerPoint.Quit() are called even when an error occurs, preventing orphan COM processes on Windows.
  • Word.Visible = $False is now set before opening the document in PowerShell scripts, eliminating the brief window flash on startup.
  • PowerPoint’s Presentations.Open() now uses WithWindow=$false to open presentations without a visible window.
  • AppleScript scripts now use try/on error blocks to ensure cleanup (close document + conditional quit) runs even when an error occurs, and the error is re-raised so that processx::run() sees a non-zero exit status.
  • File paths are now sanitized before injection into script templates: sprintf() replaced by sub() to handle % in paths, and special characters (", `, $, \) are escaped for PowerShell and AppleScript respectively.

doconv 0.3.3

CRAN release: 2025-08-18

Issues

  • Fail with informative error message if PowerShell (PS) execution strategy does not allow running PS scripts. PS scripts are required for certain actions on Windows (#2).

doconv 0.3.2

CRAN release: 2023-02-09

Features

  • add support for ‘RTF’.

Issues

  • For ‘Windows’ users, figure resolution should now remain the same when exporting ‘Word’ to ‘PDF’.

doconv 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2023-01-06

Issues

  • dont load tinytest
  • drop officer from suggests

doconv 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2022-12-16

Features

Issues

  • fix tinytest registration

doconv 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2022-11-28

Features

doconv 0.1.4

CRAN release: 2022-08-19

Features

  • new fonction docx_update() to refresh all TOC and fields.
  • new dpi parameters for image resolution

Changes

  • internals: png filenames are now defined with a correct mask
  • tools::R_user_dir() is used instead of package ‘rappdirs’.

doconv 0.1.3

CRAN release: 2021-05-19

Issues

  • Export functions init_working_directory, rm_working_directory and working_directory to let users manage docx2pdf working directory and comply with CRAN policy.
  • Use tempfile() to make libreoffice write in a temporary directory instead of using and managing working_directory().
  • fix for working_directory() so that when deleted, no empty directory is left.

doconv 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2021-05-11

  • Add argument UserInstallation to function to_pdf()

doconv 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2021-03-31