Thanks - The problem was solved by configuring FontConfig with --with-default-fonts=/usr/opt/cairopango/share/fonts and installing the font there instead of including it with RRDtool.
Cheers, Victor On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Tobias Oetiker <t...@oetiker.ch> wrote: > note that the font in recent rrd version is addrese by its > fontconfig name (fc-list output) and not by a path to some ttf file > ... > > Monday Victor Engmark wrote: > >> I've tried to compile rrdtool (with pangocairo + fontconfig etc.) with >> lots of different options, but I can't figure out how to make it use >> the font I've provided. Whenever I run `rrdtool graph` it complains: >> >> (process:18744): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect >> ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common' >> >> The resulting PNG file contains rectangles instead of characters. >> Apropos, specifying .svg instead of .png still results in PNG file >> contents... >> >> I've compiled using >> --with-freetype-config=/usr/opt/rrdtool/share/fonts/VeraMono.ttf, and >> I've verified that that path exists and is readable after >> installation. Please note that this is a custom minimal Linux >> platform, so standard packaging systems (apt-get, emerge, yum) do >> *not* apply. >> >> Possible issues: >> * Do I *have* to have a fontconfig configuration file for this font? >> `/usr/opt/cairopango/bin/fc-cache -fv /usr/opt/rrdtool/share/fonts/` >> says " >> /usr/opt/rrdtool/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 >> dirs", but I still get the same message afterwards. -- Victor Engmark _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
