Re: gd2 & fontconfig/freetype fail to find fonts on Mac OS X (macports)

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.

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>> 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  
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