#21 Frequently-recurring problem with obscure missing font

[DigitalDan]

Perhaps a newbie issue.
Windows 7, 64 bit GraphicsMagick installation. 64 Ghostscript also installed.
Long-time ImageMagick user, no such problem.
Any attempt to -draw text "...." results in Msg:
Unable to read font (n0190031.pfb) [No such file or directory]
gm convert -list font produces a long list of the expected files.

Googling for this produces tens of similar complaints over the last decade.
Responses to these complaints are sparse, and never (to date) helpful.
Adding font specs and such does not help.
Dead in the water until I can get past this. No text is entered on result image.

Thanks for any help.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

Please see the installation documentation for Windows. In particular see

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/INSTALL-windows.html#prerequisites

On my system, I had to install the fonts under

"c:\Program Files\gs\gs9.10\fonts"

Artifex (company which develops Ghostscript) does not seem to distribute these fonts any more but Ghostscript and GraphicsMagick will use them when they are installed. This gets you fonts very similar to the official Adobe Postscript versions. Otherwise fonts from Windows would need to be substituted.

Bob

[DigitalDan]

Thanks. Somehow I missed the line about having to manually install the fonts. I stopped at one too few levels of indirection.

I'll see if I can find my way into installing these.

Thanks for the quick response.

From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfriesen@users.sf.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 6:15 PM
To: [graphicsmagick:support-requests]
Subject: [graphicsmagick:support-requests] #21 Frequently-recurring problem with obscure missing font

Please see the installation documentation for Windows. In particular see

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/INSTALL-windows.html#prerequisites

On my system, I had to install the fonts under

"c:\Program Files\gs\gs9.10\fonts"

Artifex (company which develops Ghostscript) does not seem to distribute these fonts any more but Ghostscript and GraphicsMagick will use them when they are installed. This gets you fonts very similar to the official Adobe Postscript versions. Otherwise fonts from Windows would need to be substituted.

Bob

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[support-requests:#21]http://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/support-requests/21 Frequently-recurring problem with obscure missing font

Status: open
Group: v1.0_(example)
Created: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:30 PM UTC by DigitalDan
Last Updated: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:30 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Perhaps a newbie issue.
Windows 7, 64 bit GraphicsMagick installation. 64 Ghostscript also installed.
Long-time ImageMagick user, no such problem.
Any attempt to -draw text "...." results in Msg:
Unable to read font (n0190031.pfb) [No such file or directory]
gm convert -list font produces a long list of the expected files.

Googling for this produces tens of similar complaints over the last decade.
Responses to these complaints are sparse, and never (to date) helpful.
Adding font specs and such does not help.
Dead in the water until I can get past this. No text is entered on result image.

Thanks for any help.

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