[rrd-users] rrdtool and SVG output - text is (almost) missing

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Martin,

Today Martin Sperl wrote:

> On the system in question I am sitting behind an internet blocking firewall,
> so this "script" of yours is not really working/helping...
>
> Also it would subsequently require changes to lots of components to make
> really use of this new installation.
> rrdtool (including perl) is right now installed to /usr via an rpm deploy...
>
> Updating to the latest updates of RHEL5 for
> pango/fontconfig/cairo/freetype/glib2 did not help either...
>
> The only thing that seems possible to do is NOT using SVG output with
> rrdtool...

just tested the svg output rrdtool compiled with stock ubuntu 12.04
library versions ... the svg version of the file rendered by chrome
looks 'perfect'. But it is 60k vs 15k for the png version.

cheers
tobi

>
> Thanks,
>                 Martin
>
>
> On 07.03.2013 11:41, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > Today Martin Sperl wrote:
> >
> > > Any Idea how i can fix that? (preferably without having to go thru the
> > > time-consuming hassle of upgrading all the OS provided libraries
> > > manually...)
> > hmmm ... since rrdtool does not actually have a hand in generating
> > the svg apart from telling cairo todo so, I guess the easiest test
> > would be to make sure you have a recent version of cairo running
> > :-(
> >
> > just for testing, you might want to use the build_rrdtool-1.4.7.sh
> > script from
> >
> > https://github.com/oetiker/sdbs
> >
> > to build an independant copy of rrdtool and friends
> > tobi
> >
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > >                  Martin
> > >
> > > P.s: adding the option --font "TITLE:120:Courier" increases the size title
> > > of
> > > the graph and it is a bit "easier" to identify the letters  like p and g
> > > from
> > > the "lower" parts (whatever they are called typographically).
> > >
>
>

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