Re: SVG to PNG

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020, Pro Turm wrote:

>> Windows is different. .. 'configure' and then run the program.
> I was referring to when on Linux and when using the source files only (i.e.
> when gm is not installed or at most is installed in parallel)

Under Linux and other Unix-like systems (and even Cygwin and MSYS2 
which run under "Windows") tricks are used to allow the software to 
run uninstalled for testing.  For example, the rungm.sh.in file in the 
top directory gets substitutions and then rungm.sh can be used to 
create an environment to run the software in place.  There is also an 
"uninstalled" configure option where there is no fixed instation path 
and the program determines where it is at run-time.

>> it seems unlikely that you are using Solaris
> So, there is no Linux dependent types defined? I thought Solaris would be
> the equivalent for linuxish systems ?

Nope.  Solaris is an operating system developed by Sun Microsystems 
(now deceased) and in fact Linux is heavily modeled on Solaris and the 
preceding SunOS.  Regardless, Solaris is a commercial operating system 
and they paid for real Adobe font files like 'Helvetica'.

Linux desktops typically have large collections of fonts which are 
offered under a free license.  Ideally GraphicsMagick should be using 
fontlib to find installed fonts and build descriptions for them, but 
it does not do that yet.

Bob
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