Re: [GD-DEVEL] Re: gd2 & fontconfig/freetype fail to find fonts on Mac OS X (macports)

[Pierre J. <pie...@gm...>]

no, only if you tell it to do so.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Now I'm confused.
> Is it true that libgd now looks for fontconfig?
>
>
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> Subject: [GD-DEVEL] Re: gd2 & fontconfig/freetype fail to find fonts on Mac OS X (macports)
> Date: Monday 13 April 2009
> From: Ryan Schmidt <rya...@ma...>
> To: Mojca Miklavec <moj...@gm...>
>
> On Apr 13, 2009, at 01:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> I'm using Mac OS X 10.5 with GD installed via Macports
>> (http://gd2.darwinports.com/) and as many others (I think both linux
>> and mac users), I have problem using some deafult fonts inside gnuplot
>> when using GD library to generate plots.
>
> Please do not refer to that web site for information about MacPorts.
> That web site is not affiliated with the MacPorts project. For
> information about MacPorts, go to
>
> http://www.macports.org/
>
> For more information on the web site that is not related to our
> project, please read:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/DarwinPorts
>
>
>>> gnuplot
>>> set term png
>> Terminal type set to 'png'
>> Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", using internal
>> non-scalable font
>> Options are 'nocrop medium size 640,480 '
>>
>> Please note that this only happens with recent (maybe only
>> development) version of gnuplot. I'm working with 4.3 from CVS. In
>> past, gnuplot simply ignored the fact the GD was not able to find
>> trutype fonts, it's only recently that it issues a warning.
>>
>> But the font in available on computer of course and "fc-list arial"
>> returns this (+ dozens of translations):
>>
>> Arial:style=Bold Italic
>> Arial:style=Italic
>> Arial:style=Regular
>> Arial:style=Bold
>>
>> Following instructions on http://www.libgd.org/DOC_INSTALL_OSX I
>> tried to set
>>     export GDFONTPATH=$HOME/Library/Fonts:/Library/Fonts:/System/
>> Library/Fonts
>> and afterwards it worked OK.
>>
>> But the main question is: why doesn't GD find the font out-of-the-box,
>> without having to give it a hint about GDFONTPATH? It may be a problem
>> with configuration in macports that ships this library, but it
>> probably makes more sense to ask here first. I can try to play a bit
>> with installation following your instructions and then ask on macports
>> to change some bits in configuration if needed.
>
> What I understand from reading that DOC_INSTALL_OSX page you
> referenced above is that setting GDFONTPATH is only necessary if
> fontconfig cannot be found. But the gd2 port does declare a
> dependency on the fontconfig port so it should be there.
>
> If there is something I need to change in the gd2 port or the
> fontconfig port related to this, please copy me on the replies; I am
> not subscribed to the gd-devel mailing list.
>
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