[rrd-users] Default font is not used

[Tobias Oetiker]

Victor,

note that the font in recent rrd version is addrese by its
fontconfig name (fc-list output) and not by a path to some ttf file
...

cheers
tobi

Monday Victor Engmark wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've tried to compile rrdtool (with pangocairo + fontconfig etc.) with
> lots of different options, but I can't figure out how to make it use
> the font I've provided. Whenever I run `rrdtool graph` it complains:
>
> (process:18744): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect
> ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'
>
> The resulting PNG file contains rectangles instead of characters.
> Apropos, specifying .svg instead of .png still results in PNG file
> contents...
>
> I've compiled using
> --with-freetype-config=/usr/opt/rrdtool/share/fonts/VeraMono.ttf, and
> I've verified that that path exists and is readable after
> installation. Please note that this is a custom minimal Linux
> platform, so standard packaging systems (apt-get, emerge, yum) do
> *not* apply.
>
> Possible issues:
> * Do I *have* to have a fontconfig configuration file for this font?
> `/usr/opt/cairopango/bin/fc-cache -fv /usr/opt/rrdtool/share/fonts/`
> says "
> /usr/opt/rrdtool/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0
> dirs", but I still get the same message afterwards.
> *
>
>

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