[MacPorts] #14999: gd2 does not see fonts

[Lenore Horner]

Anthony,

Those are precisely the things I mentioned having seen.  What I want  
to know is how to do something about it and none of these suggest  
anything.

The closest I've come to a solution is the temporary (I think) one  
listed at http://www.lmpx.com/nav/article.php/news/php.net/php.gd.devel/557/read/index.html

However, putting the recommended text into my .profile had zero  
effect, so I'm still stumped.

 From what I've seen, it should be fontconfig doing this with gd as a  
fallback.

Lenore

On May 24, 2009, at 22:45 , Anthony Agelastos wrote:

> Lenore,
>
> I hope you have luck with fixing this issue.  I have not tried the  
> suggestion(s) in the email(s) below; feel free to play around with  
> GDFONTPATH.  Anyways, if you are successful in getting this to work,  
> please let me know.
>
> -Anthony
>
> Forwarded conversation
> Subject: Re: [MacPorts] #14999: gd2 does not see fonts
> ------------------------
>
> From: MacPorts <noreply at macports.org>
> Date: Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:37 AM
> To: iqgrande at gmail.com, ryandesign at macports.org
> Cc: macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
>
>
> #14999: gd2 does not see fonts
> --------------------------------- 
> +------------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  iqgrande at gmail.com  |       Owner:   
> ryandesign at macports.org
>      Type:  defect              |      Status:  new
>  Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:  Port Bugs
>  Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.6.0
> Resolution:                      |    Keywords:  gd2 font
> --------------------------------- 
> +------------------------------------------
> Comment (by ryandesign at macports.org):
>
>  Sorry, I don't know what to do here. You may need to ask the  
> developers of
>  gnuplot and/or gd2 for assistance. Or you may just need to set the
>  GDFONTPATH environment variable, as you already mentioned.
>
> --
> Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/14999#comment:2>
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> From: MacPorts <noreply at macports.org>
> Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:46 AM
> To: iqgrande at gmail.com, ryandesign at macports.org
> Cc: macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
>
>
>  Reporter:  iqgrande@…          |       Owner:  ryandesign@…
>  Keywords:  gd2 font            |        Port:  gd2
> -------------------------------- 
> +-------------------------------------------
> Changes (by ryandesign@…):
>
>  * port:  => gd2
>
>
> Old description:
>
> > When I was using Port "gnuplot" to create some PNG and JPEG figures,
> > which uses Port "gd2" for this, I was getting errors about the  
> fonts not
> > being found. A few lines of these errors are shown below.
> >
> > $ gnuplot gnuplot.commands
> > gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string  0  
> with
> > font arial
> > gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string   
> 10 with
> > font arial
> > ...
> >
> > If this helps, the site
> > http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/about265948.html mentions that
> > GDFONTPATH may not be setup properly.
> >
> > My environment:
> > MacBook Pro (1st gen)
> > Mac OS X 10.5.2 (fully up-to-date)
> > Xcode 3.0 (latest AFAIK without iPhone dev)
> > XQuartz 2.1.4 (latest)
> > Latest MacPorts & Ports
>
> New description:
>
>  When I was using Port "gnuplot" to create some PNG and JPEG  
> figures, which
>  uses Port "gd2" for this, I was getting errors about the fonts not  
> being
>  found. A few lines of these errors are shown below.
>
>  {{{
>  $ gnuplot gnuplot.commands
>  gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string  0  
> with
>  font arial
>  gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string  10  
> with
>  font arial
>  ...
>  }}}
>
>  If this helps, the site http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/about265948.html
>  mentions that GDFONTPATH may not be setup properly.
>
>  My environment:
>  * MacBook Pro (1st gen)
>  * Mac OS X 10.5.2 (fully up-to-date)
>  * Xcode 3.0 (latest AFAIK without iPhone dev)
>  * XQuartz 2.1.4 (latest)
>  * Latest MacPorts & Ports
>
> --
>
> --
> Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/14999#comment:3>
>
>

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