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Review: r-cran-showtext 0.9-8-1

Package Information

DescriptionUsing Fonts More Easily in R Graphs

Making it easy to use various types of fonts ('TrueType', 'OpenType', Type 1, web fonts, etc.) in R graphs, and supporting most output formats of R graphics including PNG, PDF and SVG. Text glyphs will be converted into polygons or raster images, hence after the plot has been created, it no longer relies on the font files. No external software such as 'Ghostscript' is needed to use this package.

MaintainerDebian R Packages Maintainers <r-pkg-team@alioth-lists.debian.net>
Changed ByCharles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Sponsorplessy@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-showtext.git (browse)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/r-cran-showtext
Uploaded2 hours ago

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Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateFri, 11 Sep 2026 10:42:47 +0900
Sourcer-cran-showtext
Version0.9-8-1
Changed-ByCharles Plessy
Changelog
r-cran-showtext (0.9-8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release (needed by r-cran-factominer)
.dsc
Package-Listr-cran-showtext deb gnu-r optional arch=any
Sectiongnu-r
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Source: https://cran.r-project.org/package=showtext
Upstream-Name: showtext
Upstream-Contact:
 Yixuan Qiu <yixuan.qiu@cos.name>,

Files: *
Copyright: FIXME-2026 Yixuan Qiu,
 Dave Raggett (UTF-8 library. See the AUTHORS file for details)
License: Apache-2.0

Files: src/tidy.h
Copyright: (c) 1998-2008 World Wide Web Consortium
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research
  Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University).
License: Libpng
  All Rights Reserved.
 .
  CVS Info :
 .
    $Author: arnaud02 $
    $Date: 2008/04/22 11:00:42 $
    $Revision: 1.22 $
 .
  Contributing Author(s):
 .
     Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
 .
  The contributing author(s) would like to thank all those who
  helped with testing, bug fixes and suggestions for improvements.
  This wouldn't have been possible without your help.
 .
  COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
 .
  This software and documentation is provided "as is," and
  the copyright holders and contributing author(s) make no
  representations or warranties, express or implied, including
  but not limited to, warranties of merchantability or fitness
  for any particular purpose or that the use of the software or
  documentation will not infringe any third party patents,
  copyrights, trademarks or other rights.
 .
  The copyright holders and contributing author(s) will not be held
  liable for any direct, indirect, special or consequential damages
  arising out of any use of the software or documentation, even if
  advised of the possibility of such damage.
 .
  Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute
  this source code, or portions hereof, documentation and executables,
  for any purpose, without fee, subject to the following restrictions:
 .
  1. The origin of this source code must not be misrepresented.
  2. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such and must
     not be misrepresented as being the original source.
  3. This Copyright notice may not be removed or altered from any
     source or altered source distribution.
 .
  The copyright holders and contributing author(s) specifically
  permit, without fee, and encourage the use of this source code
  as a component for supporting the Hypertext Markup Language in
  commercial products. If you use this source code in a product,
  acknowledgment is not required but would be appreciated.
 .
 .
  Created 2001-05-20 by Charles Reitzel
  Updated 2002-07-01 by Charles Reitzel - 1st Implementation

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026 Debian R Packages Maintainers <r-pkg-team@alioth-lists.debian.net>
License: Apache-2.0

License: Apache-2.0
 On Debian systems you can find the full text of the Apache License at
 /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0.

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