Alexis Solis
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I use a custom font for my ggplot2 theme (adhering to my company's policies). Using both `ggplot2 `and `svglite`, I've been saving some plots as `.svg`. However, the fonts don't render correctly in PowerPoint (although they DO render correctly when opening the .svg file in say, a browser). I realized that adding the line `device = svg` inside the `ggsave()` function WITHOUT the quotations around `svg` fixes the issue. Why would this happen? See reprex below for an example:
```
library(tidyverse)
library(svglite)
# Import ggplot2 theme, which uses the DINPro Font
dinpro_path <- "path/to_custom/dinpro_theme.R"
source(dinpro_path)
# Generic plot
mtcars %>%
ggplot(aes(mpg, disp)) +
geom_point() +
labs(
title = "plot_title",
subtitle = "– plot_subtitle"
) +
dinpro_theme()
# This DOES NOT work since fonts don't show in PowerPoint or any other MS Office product.
ggsave(
filename = "svg_name.svg",
path = "charts/",
device = 'svg',
width = 8,
height = 11,
units = 'cm',
dpi = 300
)
# This works perfectly!
ggsave(
filename = "svg_name.svg",
path = "charts/",
device = svg,
width = 8,
height = 11,
units = 'cm',
dpi = 300
)
```
I'm using the latest versions of the packages:
ggplot2: ‘3.3.5’
svglite: ‘2.0.0’