svglite and showtext

[Spazio2001]

When I save a graphic as SVG and then edit it in Figma using svg(), it converts the text to vector for me. To fix I'm using the svglite library. This works, but only if I use Arial as the font.

I instead have my own font that I import into R with showtext specifying the path to the otf file (extrafont doesn't work), but if I use this then it becomes a vector again. How can I fix?

[trevorld]

According to {showtext} intro vignette:

showtext renders text by converting it into color-filled polygonal outlines (for vector graphics) or raster images (for bitmap and on-screen graphics). Therefore, the rendered text has the same appearance under all platforms. People who view the graph do not need to install the font that creates the graph. Of course as a price, the actual text information is lost in this procedure.

Theoretically you should be able to directly use non-Arial fonts with svglite() using the typical methods in {ggplot2} / {grid} to specify fonts but your user needs to have them installed (or your website needs to serve them)...

[Spazio2001]

On my pc the font is installed, but I can't use on Ggplot because when I use font_import I've always an error: No FontName. Skipping. This is why I use showtext. So the solution is to be able to correctly import the font with extrafont?

[trevorld]

Did you read and follow: https://svglite.r-lib.org/articles/fonts.html ?

[Spazio2001]

I tried all the proposed solutions, but none work. The result is always a vector and not a text

[thomasp85]

svglite will never convert text to vector... svglite uses systemfonts and should have access to any fonts installed on your system. showtext should neither work nor be needed