NEWS

ragg 1.5.0.9000

• Fix support for the default symbol font on many linux distros(StandardSymbolPS) by ensuring proper fallback during character metriccalculation (#136,#201)
• agg_capture() now reports the current "page number" as well as whether anydrawing has occured since the last time the capture was taken as attributesin the return value (but only if you request native raster) (#204)

ragg 1.5.0(2025-09-02)

• Fix gradient rendering bug introduced by trying to fix#177 (#192)
• Add support for WebP output, both static and animated (#190,@klausbrunner)

ragg 1.4.0(2025-04-10)

• Addedagg_record() for optimised plot recording
• Added support for hold and flushing, mainly in service of Positron
• Added support forsaturate composition operator
• Sanitise file name before plotting (#176)
• Tiff files can now include unicode characters on all platforms (#87)

ragg 1.3.3(2024-09-11)

• Fixed a regression from upstream changes in Freetype (#172)

ragg 1.3.2(2024-05-15)

• Fix a bug in how groups are defined and recalled

ragg 1.3.1(2024-05-06)

• Make sure the linejoin/linemitre setting is honored when drawing rectangles(#162)
• Fix a bug with resetting clipping during group and pattern rendering
• Fix scaling of raster glyphs in drawGlyph

ragg 1.3.0(2024-03-13)

• Added supported for new graphics enigine features: Groups, paths, luminancemasks, and glyphs
• Add a switch (defaults to on) to snapping rectangles to the pixel grid whenthey are only drawn with fill (no stroke)
• Fixed a bug causing repeated warnings when using a font at 0 size (#130)
• Silence a bug in clang-ASAN that incorrectly reported sanitiser issues

ragg 1.2.7(2023-12-11)

• Fix a stack imbalance bug

ragg 1.2.6(2023-10-10)

• Fix symbol rendering bug on windows (#132)
• Add support fordev.capabilities() (#105)
• Prepare for Arm Windows

ragg 1.2.5(2023-01-12)

• Fix a bug when rendering glyphs from a colour font that also provide greyscaleglyphs (#105)
• Movesprintf() tosnprintf() in the AGG source code to comply with Arm64deprecation
• Better guard against bad input (#116)

ragg 1.2.4(2022-10-24)

• Fixed a regression that turned off line mitre support (#119)

ragg 1.2.3(2022-09-29)

• Second attempt at rendering jpegs with transparent background. Now, the bufferis filled with solid white before any drawing happens.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in newlines being rendered as missing glyphs on someLinux versions (#111)

ragg 1.2.2(2022-02-21)

• MacOS: configure script now uses the local system dependencies provided byCRAN via pkg-config. Autobrew libs are used as fallback on non-cran servers only.

ragg 1.2.1(2021-12-06)

• Fix bug that caused R to crash when writing tiff files with transparentbackground (#97)

ragg 1.2.0(2021-10-30)

• Add support for new graphic engine features:
  • Arbitrary clipping paths
  • Alpha masks
  • Linear and radial gradients
  • Tiling patterns
• Use white as background when passing in a fully transparent background colourto devices that doesn't support alpha (notably jpeg) (#91)
• ragg now defers symbol font resolving to systemfonts which makes it possibleto register alternative symbol fonts usingregister_font() (#90)
• Filenames in UTF-8 are now treated correctly on Windows (#87)
• Fix size selection of non-scalable fonts when the requested size is biggerthan the available

ragg 1.1.3(2021-06-09)

• Use int32_t instead of int32 in old code
• Prepare for UCRT
• Better error message when failing to allocate memory for the buffer (#82)
• Increase storage size limits for paths (#80)

ragg 1.1.2(2021-03-17)

• Fix bug inagg_capture() that resulted in premultiplied colour values beingreturned

ragg 1.1.1(2021-02-25)

• Fix a bug in glyph dimension lookup that could cause system crashes
• Fix bug in font caching when multiple ragg devices are used simultaneously

ragg 1.1.0(2021-02-15)

• Major version release to signify the much improved text support that includesfull support for right-to-left scripts and bidirectional text (mix of RtL andLtR scripts). It further adds full support for OpenType features andnon-scalable fonts.
• Re-exportingregister_font(),register_variant(), andfont_feature()from systemfonts
• Re-exportingget_font_features() from textshaping
• Use new textshaping API and handle font fallback correctly
• Add support for rendering colour fonts (#1)

ragg 0.4.1(2021-01-11)

• Skip text tests on CRAN as no text is plottet on the CRAN solaris machine
• Fixed a bug resulting in system crash on certain systems, as well asclang-ASAN error. (#59)

ragg 0.4.0(2020-10-05)

• ragg now requires the Harfbuzz and Fribidi libraries to be available wheninstalling from source due to their dependency in the textshaping package.
• Move text shaping to the new textshaping package.
• Fixagg_capture() on big endian systems (#49,@QuLogic)
• Fix use of symbol font on Windows by moving to Segoe UI Symbol which has aUnicode charmap (#51)
• Better compatibility with knitr andggplot2::ggsave()

ragg 0.3.1(2020-07-03)

• Roll back support for new clipping options in the graphic engine as it wasbuggy.

ragg 0.3.0(2020-06-24)

• Fix a bug when plotting partially transparent raster (#44)
• Add ascaling argument to all devices allowing you to change relativescaling of output.
• Horizontal and vertical text are now snapped to the pixel grid in order toimprove rendering quality.
• Internal changes to prepare for coming updates to the graphic engine

ragg 0.2.0(2020-05-14)

• Fix compilation on R <= 3.3 by including Rdynload.h explicitly
• Fix a performance regression when plotting text (#33)
• Fix erroneous width calculations of strings starting with a space on windows(#32)
• Fix a bug inagg_capture() where the output became mangled if deviceheight != width
• Fix a bug in raster support where raster data did not get premultiplied beforerendering (#38,@yixuan)
• Fix an integer overflow issue in the AGG source code

ragg 0.1.5(2020-03-04)

• Fix compilation on macOS

ragg 0.1.4(2020-02-25)

• Fix a bug in AGG's font manager that ignored the font index when it stored andretrieved cached faces

ragg 0.1.3(2019-08-28)

• Fix bug preventing ragg from displaying 50% transparent black
• Another attempt at fixing compilation on mac build machines

ragg 0.1.2(2019-07-30)

• Fix compilation on certain Linux systems by preferring dynamic libraries overstatic ones (#25,@jimhester).

ragg 0.1.1(2019-07-29)

• Avoid a bug when the call to start a device included too many characters (#16)
• Fix integer overflow runtime errors in agg source code(agg_scanline_storage_aa.h), by changing storage tolong
• Remove benchmarking vignettes as it was causing too much trouble on strippeddown systems... They are still available onhttps://ragg.r-lib.org
• Better build setup to properly build on all macOS systems

ragg 0.1.0(2019-07-15)

• Basic setup of package. png, tiff, ppm, and buffer capture support
• Added aNEWS.md file to track changes to the package.