Hello all, First time on an ImageMagick mailing list and this is a long story so please bear with me ;-P
I'm working on a mostly perl project that uses Image::Magick for its image manipulation needs. I was brought on to this project to replace the last developer so I am not privy to all that I should know. Again, please bear with me... There is code setup to apply text with the Futura LT Bold TrueType font. This was all done using the MAGICK_CONFIGURE_PATH env var, a type.xml file describing the font, along with the actual font and a corresponding afm file for the font. I'm not sure of where the font originally came from but the afm was create using ttf2afm. All in all the font worked and everyone was happy. Now, the condensed version of the bold font is needed to be put in the mix so I went and bought the font from Linotype directly and got the TrueType version to keep things consistent. On my Mac OS X 10.5 system the Futura LT Condensed Bold looks just dandy in the QuickLook preview and the Font Book preview but I have had a nightmare of a time trying to figure out why ImageMagick does not like it. I started by trying to use it within the application being developed which required me to install ttf2afm to get the afm, configure the type.xml, fiddle with the type.xml and learn along the way. None of that was working so I moved to using the command found at the bottom of this helpful page: http://russia.shaps.hawaii.edu/software/add-to-im.html Using that accelerated my testing but still no luck getting the font to work. This whole time I'm thinking that the afm that was generated was incorrect or the settings in the type.xml were wrong but then I stumbled across a version of the command that allowed me to specify the font directly via the file path rather than the name of the font. That command looked like this: convert -font /path/to/fonts/lte50169.ttf -fill black -draw 'text 1,20"LA LA LA"' input.png pepe.png When using the Futura LT Bold font it worked, when I used the Futura LT Condensed Bold it simply gave me: convert: unable to read font `/path/to/fonts/lte50169.ttf'. So I'm left with wondering what is up with this font that I just bought. It appears to work in the places where font type people would expect it to but not where I, the developer, need it to. I called Linotype to see if they had any suggestions and they said all their fonts are test, they did not deal with supporting ImageMagick and that the developer(s) of it should be contacted to see if they could figure out the issue, being very understanding all throughout the call. So hear I am. I can not just make the fonts available for all to try but I do have permission to make them available to an ImageMagick developer that it willing to try to troubleshoot this issue further. Beyond that of course, has anyone run into this type of issue before, is there something that can be done aside from what Linotype suggested and/or should I ask for more versions of the font to test with? Thanks, -- David Steinbrunner _______________________________________________ Magick-developers mailing list Magick-developers@imagemagick.org http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-developers
