[rrd-users] Default font is not used

[Victor Engmark]

Thanks - The problem was solved by configuring FontConfig with
--with-default-fonts=/usr/opt/cairopango/share/fonts and installing
the font there instead of including it with RRDtool.

Cheers,
Victor

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> 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
> ...
>
> Monday Victor Engmark wrote:
>
>> 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.

-- 
Victor Engmark