how can I make svglite render portable svgs on travis-ci?
Plots rendered through svglite look differently when rendered through Travis, then when rendered locally.
This happens, because my local machine (macOS in this case) aliases different (more standard?) fonts for the default R plots
gdtools::match_family("Arial")
## [1] "Arial"
gdtools::match_family("sans")
## [1] "Bitstream Vera Sans"
... than travis ci:
gdtools::match_family("Arial")
## [1] "Liberation Sans"
gdtools::match_family("sans")
## [1] "DejaVu Sans"
"Liberation Sans", in turn, is not necessarily available on all computers viewing the svg (it wasn't on mine, until I ran brew cask install font-liberation-sans).
So, while the locally-generated SVGs have pretty decent portability (~"Arial"), the TravisCI-generated (~"Liberation Sans") do not.
I'd like rock-solid portability that works on every computer with a reasonable current browser.
I understand from svglite fonts vignette that I should probably use User font aliases to accomplish this, but I have not managed to get it to work, and am pretty confused about the whole font businesses.
I just want SVGs from svglite that look the same everywhere.
Here's the boilerplate index.Rmd that creates the different plots.
---
title: "index"
author: "foo"
date: "11/2/2018"
output:
rmarkdown::html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```
# `png` Device
```{r png, echo=FALSE, dev = 'png'}
plot(pressure)
```
# `svg` Device
```{r svg, echo=FALSE, dev = 'svg'}
plot(pressure)
```
# `svglite` Device
```{r svglite, echo=FALSE, dev = 'svglite'}
plot(pressure)
```
(The entire repo and travis builds is here, finished website is at http://datascience.phil.fau.de/rmdbpl/).
When rendered locally (macOS) all three plots look roughly the same:
When build on Travis CI, the plot rendered through svglite, viewed on a machine without "Liberation Sans" will substitute a serif fonts, which looks bad.
r fonts r-markdown travis-ci svglite
edited Nov 25 '18 at 19:03
hrbrmstr
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Plots rendered through svglite look differently when rendered through Travis, then when rendered locally.
This happens, because my local machine (macOS in this case) aliases different (more standard?) fonts for the default R plots
gdtools::match_family("Arial")
## [1] "Arial"
gdtools::match_family("sans")
## [1] "Bitstream Vera Sans"
... than travis ci:
gdtools::match_family("Arial")
## [1] "Liberation Sans"
gdtools::match_family("sans")
## [1] "DejaVu Sans"
"Liberation Sans", in turn, is not necessarily available on all computers viewing the svg (it wasn't on mine, until I ran brew cask install font-liberation-sans).
So, while the locally-generated SVGs have pretty decent portability (~"Arial"), the TravisCI-generated (~"Liberation Sans") do not.
I'd like rock-solid portability that works on every computer with a reasonable current browser.
I understand from svglite fonts vignette that I should probably use User font aliases to accomplish this, but I have not managed to get it to work, and am pretty confused about the whole font businesses.
I just want SVGs from svglite that look the same everywhere.
Here's the boilerplate index.Rmd that creates the different plots.
---
title: "index"
author: "foo"
date: "11/2/2018"
output:
rmarkdown::html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```
# `png` Device
```{r png, echo=FALSE, dev = 'png'}
plot(pressure)
```
# `svg` Device
```{r svg, echo=FALSE, dev = 'svg'}
plot(pressure)
```
# `svglite` Device
```{r svglite, echo=FALSE, dev = 'svglite'}
plot(pressure)
```
(The entire repo and travis builds is here, finished website is at http://datascience.phil.fau.de/rmdbpl/).
When rendered locally (macOS) all three plots look roughly the same:
When build on Travis CI, the plot rendered through svglite, viewed on a machine without "Liberation Sans" will substitute a serif fonts, which looks bad.
r fonts r-markdown travis-ci svglite
edited Nov 25 '18 at 19:03
hrbrmstr
61.6k691153
asked Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
maxheldmaxheld
1,2981332
if anyone has enough points to add ansvglitetag to this question, that'd be great.
– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
1
Max of 5 tags regardless of rep
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:09
1
Have you tried addinggdtools::match_family("Arial")to an R code block in the Rmd and seeing what it says? Also, have you tried installing any OS font packages (Travis-CI base builds are pretty bare-bones)
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:21
@hrbrmstr ah, yes of course – I cut it down to 4 tags, one available forsvglitenow.
– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 15:39
1
Ah, so I'm wondering, now, if you're viewing the svglite-generated document on a system without Liberation Sans. What happens if you install fontsquirrel.com/fonts/liberation-sans on the OS you're viewing the generated HTML document from?
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 16:00
|
show 3 more comments
Plots rendered through svglite look differently when rendered through Travis, then when rendered locally.
This happens, because my local machine (macOS in this case) aliases different (more standard?) fonts for the default R plots
gdtools::match_family("Arial")
## [1] "Arial"
gdtools::match_family("sans")
## [1] "Bitstream Vera Sans"
... than travis ci:
gdtools::match_family("Arial")
## [1] "Liberation Sans"
gdtools::match_family("sans")
## [1] "DejaVu Sans"
"Liberation Sans", in turn, is not necessarily available on all computers viewing the svg (it wasn't on mine, until I ran brew cask install font-liberation-sans).
So, while the locally-generated SVGs have pretty decent portability (~"Arial"), the TravisCI-generated (~"Liberation Sans") do not.
I'd like rock-solid portability that works on every computer with a reasonable current browser.
I understand from svglite fonts vignette that I should probably use User font aliases to accomplish this, but I have not managed to get it to work, and am pretty confused about the whole font businesses.
I just want SVGs from svglite that look the same everywhere.
Here's the boilerplate index.Rmd that creates the different plots.
---
title: "index"
author: "foo"
date: "11/2/2018"
output:
rmarkdown::html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```
# `png` Device
```{r png, echo=FALSE, dev = 'png'}
plot(pressure)
```
# `svg` Device
```{r svg, echo=FALSE, dev = 'svg'}
plot(pressure)
```
# `svglite` Device
```{r svglite, echo=FALSE, dev = 'svglite'}
plot(pressure)
```
(The entire repo and travis builds is here, finished website is at http://datascience.phil.fau.de/rmdbpl/).
When rendered locally (macOS) all three plots look roughly the same:
When build on Travis CI, the plot rendered through svglite, viewed on a machine without "Liberation Sans" will substitute a serif fonts, which looks bad.
r fonts r-markdown travis-ci svglite
edited Nov 25 '18 at 19:03
hrbrmstr
61.6k691153
asked Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
maxheldmaxheld
1,2981332
Plots rendered through svglite look differently when rendered through Travis, then when rendered locally.
This happens, because my local machine (macOS in this case) aliases different (more standard?) fonts for the default R plots
gdtools::match_family("Arial")
## [1] "Arial"
gdtools::match_family("sans")
## [1] "Bitstream Vera Sans"
... than travis ci:
gdtools::match_family("Arial")
## [1] "Liberation Sans"
gdtools::match_family("sans")
## [1] "DejaVu Sans"
"Liberation Sans", in turn, is not necessarily available on all computers viewing the svg (it wasn't on mine, until I ran brew cask install font-liberation-sans).
So, while the locally-generated SVGs have pretty decent portability (~"Arial"), the TravisCI-generated (~"Liberation Sans") do not.
I'd like rock-solid portability that works on every computer with a reasonable current browser.
I understand from svglite fonts vignette that I should probably use User font aliases to accomplish this, but I have not managed to get it to work, and am pretty confused about the whole font businesses.
I just want SVGs from svglite that look the same everywhere.
Here's the boilerplate index.Rmd that creates the different plots.
---
title: "index"
author: "foo"
date: "11/2/2018"
output:
rmarkdown::html_document
---
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
```
# `png` Device
```{r png, echo=FALSE, dev = 'png'}
plot(pressure)
```
# `svg` Device
```{r svg, echo=FALSE, dev = 'svg'}
plot(pressure)
```
# `svglite` Device
```{r svglite, echo=FALSE, dev = 'svglite'}
plot(pressure)
```
(The entire repo and travis builds is here, finished website is at http://datascience.phil.fau.de/rmdbpl/).
When rendered locally (macOS) all three plots look roughly the same:
When build on Travis CI, the plot rendered through svglite, viewed on a machine without "Liberation Sans" will substitute a serif fonts, which looks bad.
r fonts r-markdown travis-ci svglite
r fonts r-markdown travis-ci svglite
edited Nov 25 '18 at 19:03
hrbrmstr
61.6k691153
asked Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
maxheldmaxheld
1,2981332
edited Nov 25 '18 at 19:03
hrbrmstr
61.6k691153
asked Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
maxheldmaxheld
1,2981332
edited Nov 25 '18 at 19:03
hrbrmstr
61.6k691153
edited Nov 25 '18 at 19:03
hrbrmstr
61.6k691153
edited Nov 25 '18 at 19:03
hrbrmstr
61.6k691153
61.6k691153
asked Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
maxheldmaxheld
1,2981332
asked Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
maxheldmaxheld
1,2981332
asked Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
maxheldmaxheld
1,2981332
1,2981332
if anyone has enough points to add ansvglitetag to this question, that'd be great.
– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
1
Max of 5 tags regardless of rep
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:09
1
Have you tried addinggdtools::match_family("Arial")to an R code block in the Rmd and seeing what it says? Also, have you tried installing any OS font packages (Travis-CI base builds are pretty bare-bones)
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:21
@hrbrmstr ah, yes of course – I cut it down to 4 tags, one available forsvglitenow.
– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 15:39
1
Ah, so I'm wondering, now, if you're viewing the svglite-generated document on a system without Liberation Sans. What happens if you install fontsquirrel.com/fonts/liberation-sans on the OS you're viewing the generated HTML document from?
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 16:00
|
show 3 more comments
if anyone has enough points to add ansvglitetag to this question, that'd be great.
– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
1
Max of 5 tags regardless of rep
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:09
1
Have you tried addinggdtools::match_family("Arial")to an R code block in the Rmd and seeing what it says? Also, have you tried installing any OS font packages (Travis-CI base builds are pretty bare-bones)
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:21
@hrbrmstr ah, yes of course – I cut it down to 4 tags, one available forsvglitenow.
– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 15:39
1
Ah, so I'm wondering, now, if you're viewing the svglite-generated document on a system without Liberation Sans. What happens if you install fontsquirrel.com/fonts/liberation-sans on the OS you're viewing the generated HTML document from?
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 16:00
if anyone has enough points to add an
svglite tag to this question, that'd be great.– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
if anyone has enough points to add an
svglite tag to this question, that'd be great.– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
1
1
Max of 5 tags regardless of rep
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:09
Max of 5 tags regardless of rep
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:09
1
1
Have you tried adding
gdtools::match_family("Arial") to an R code block in the Rmd and seeing what it says? Also, have you tried installing any OS font packages (Travis-CI base builds are pretty bare-bones)– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:21
Have you tried adding
gdtools::match_family("Arial") to an R code block in the Rmd and seeing what it says? Also, have you tried installing any OS font packages (Travis-CI base builds are pretty bare-bones)– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:21
@hrbrmstr ah, yes of course – I cut it down to 4 tags, one available for
svglite now.– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 15:39
@hrbrmstr ah, yes of course – I cut it down to 4 tags, one available for
svglite now.– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 15:39
1
1
Ah, so I'm wondering, now, if you're viewing the svglite-generated document on a system without Liberation Sans. What happens if you install fontsquirrel.com/fonts/liberation-sans on the OS you're viewing the generated HTML document from?
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 16:00
Ah, so I'm wondering, now, if you're viewing the svglite-generated document on a system without Liberation Sans. What happens if you install fontsquirrel.com/fonts/liberation-sans on the OS you're viewing the generated HTML document from?
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 16:00
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if anyone has enough points to add an
svglitetag to this question, that'd be great.– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 13:59
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Max of 5 tags regardless of rep
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:09
1
Have you tried adding
gdtools::match_family("Arial")to an R code block in the Rmd and seeing what it says? Also, have you tried installing any OS font packages (Travis-CI base builds are pretty bare-bones)– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 14:21
@hrbrmstr ah, yes of course – I cut it down to 4 tags, one available for
svglitenow.– maxheld
Nov 25 '18 at 15:39
1
Ah, so I'm wondering, now, if you're viewing the svglite-generated document on a system without Liberation Sans. What happens if you install fontsquirrel.com/fonts/liberation-sans on the OS you're viewing the generated HTML document from?
– hrbrmstr
Nov 25 '18 at 16:00