Changelog • rvg

rvg 0.4.1

CRAN release: 2026-02-16

Issues

Text no longer inherits bold/italic style from PowerPoint/Excel templates; b and i attributes are now always set explicitly in run properties.
Shapes without fill now emit explicit <a:noFill/> instead of omitting the fill element, preventing unintended theme fill inheritance in PowerPoint/Excel.
Circles (points) outside the clipping region are now skipped, preventing data points from appearing beyond plot limits.
Text is no longer vertically shifted in PowerPoint/Excel output; removed explicit line spacing that conflicted with the centered anchor of text boxes.

changes

dml_xlsx() no longer exposes the raster_prefix argument; raster files are now written to an internal temporary directory. The prefix is embedded in the output as an XML comment (), which callers can read after dev.off() to locate the PNG files.
Implement xlsx_path callback for the XLSX device, enabling geom_path and path-based geometries in Excel output.
Compound paths (pptx_path/xlsx_path) now combine all sub-polygons into a single <a:path> element within <a:custGeom>, so holes (donuts, cut-out polygons) render correctly via winding rule.
Bump deviceVersion to v15 (R_GE_group) on R >= 4.2, avoiding redundant double-clipping by the graphics engine and enabling the capabilities callback so that dev.capabilities() reports explicitly unsupported features (patterns, masks, clipping paths, compositing, transformations). This eliminates the “Unable to check capabilities” warning from ggplot2.
Font resolution now uses gdtools::font_set_auto() to detect system fonts for sans, serif, mono and symbol aliases. Minimum gdtools version bumped to 0.5.0.
validate_fonts() now warns when user-supplied font families are not found on the system.
Documentation clarifies that fonts are not embedded in DrawingML output and must be available on the reader’s system.

rvg 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2025-10-06

migrate from gdtools to systemfonts

rvg 0.3.5

CRAN release: 2025-03-27

Issues

Use png from the system/Rtools

rvg 0.3.4

CRAN release: 2024-08-27

Issues

throw more informative error message when no plot is generated

rvg 0.3.3

CRAN release: 2023-05-10

Issues

fix issue with raster images that get deleted before being integrated by officer.
drop cpp11 specification

rvg 0.3.2

CRAN release: 2023-01-07

Issues

use cstdint as required by the CRAN to let the package work with GCC-13.

rvg 0.3.1

CRAN release: 2022-12-21

Issues

add field SystemRequirements in DESCRIPTION file so that software dependancies can be managed automatically.

Changes

use new mechanisms of officer 0.5 and drop complex treatments of raster/images for pptx.

rvg 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2022-12-08

Issues

replace call to sprintf by call to snprintf

Changes

use png for rasters
refactor cpp file tree

rvg 0.2.5

CRAN release: 2020-06-30

Changes

update for changes in the R graphics engine (thanks to Dr Paul Murrell)
function body_add_vg is defunct.
functions ph_with_vg and ph_with_vg_at have been removed.

rvg 0.2.4

CRAN release: 2020-02-17

Changes

functions ph_with_vg and ph_with_vg_at are defunct and will be removed in the next release.
rvg web site is now indicated in DESCRIPTION file.
functions ph_with_vg and ph_with_vg_at are defunct.

rvg 0.2.3

CRAN release: 2020-01-26

Deprecations

functions ph_with_vg and ph_with_vg_at are deprecated.

rvg 0.2.2

CRAN release: 2019-11-11

Fixes

fix issues with default font

rvg 0.2.1

CRAN release: 2019-06-25

Enhancement

New function ph_with.dml and dml, it will replace functions ph_with_vg and ph_with_vg_at (they will be deprecated in the next release).

rvg 0.2.0

CRAN release: 2019-04-06

Changes

dsvg is now living in ggiraph package

rvg 0.1.9

CRAN release: 2018-06-10

Enhancement

add path method to PowerPoint device. As an effect ggplot2::geom_sf is now supported.
argument type of function ph_with_vg now default to “body”.

Changes

dml_docx is deprecated and will be removed in later versions. It was maintained for compatibility reasons with package ReporteRs. As ReporteRs will be removed from CRAN 2018-07-16, this function has no more reason to exist.

rvg 0.1.8

CRAN release: 2018-02-13

fix encoding issues with Windows platforms.

rvg 0.1.7

CRAN release: 2017-12-03

add argument ggobj to ph_with_vg() and ph_with_vg_at(). It can be used as replacement to code=print(gg) when gg is a ggplot object.
new function xl_add_vg() to add vector graphics produced from R into Excel workbooks. This requires officer >= 0.2.0.

rvg 0.1.6

CRAN release: 2017-10-05

update with officer 1.8

rvg 0.1.5

CRAN release: 2017-09-05

update with gdtools 1.6
raster ids are now registered

rvg 0.1.4

CRAN release: 2017-06-23

raster images dpi has been increased
new ‘ph_with_vg_at’ methods for package officer

rvg 0.1.3

CRAN release: 2017-03-10

new ‘body_add_vg’ and ‘ph_with_vg’ methods for package officer
deletion of write_* functions, these are now available in officer (functions print)

rvg 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2017-01-03

add donttest tags in all examples to avoid long runs due to fontconfig initialisation
change textbox in Word graphics so that text auto-adjusts.

rvg 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2016-11-02

adapt code to gdtools 0.1.1

rvg 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2016-06-27

adapt code to xml2 1.0 (use xml_find_first instead of deprecated xml_find_one)

rvg 0.0.9

CRAN release: 2016-04-29

New features

new device driver for Microsoft Excel documents
add function write_xlsx

Bug fixes

make cliping region id unique in dsvg

rvg 0.0.8

CRAN release: 2016-03-04

Bug fixes

fix rectangle clipping
stop wrapping text in DrawingML devices

rvg 0.0.7

CRAN release: 2016-02-25

New features

implementation of clipping (algorithms by Francois Brunetti).
new function set_attr to set attributes to graphical elements without dependency to jquery nor bootstrap (suggested by Bob Rudis).

rvg 0.0.6

CRAN release: 2016-01-26

Bug fixes

plot size was truncated to integers
lines with opacity were not displayed

New features

grid support for interactive points, polygons, polylines, rectangles, segments and text