Hi Florian,
Issues like this are usually due to incompatible combinations of
Glib/Cairo/Pango etc. So it really depends on what OS you are running this
on, and how you installed Cairo and Pango. If you are on OSX, you may get
some ideas from https://github.com/JuliaLang/Homebrew.jl/issues/35
On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:18:37 UTC+1, Florian Oswald wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I tried to do this as shown on the gadfly homepage:
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> julia> p = plot(x=[1,2,3], y=[4,5,6])
> Plot(...)
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> julia> draw(PNG("myplot.png", 12cm, 6cm), p)
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>
> which gave me a long list of warnings of the type
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> (process:13547): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: plugin pointer (0x194c33c70) for
> type 'BasicEngineCoreText' is invalid
>
> and an output that had all the annotations missing. I did install Cairo.
>
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> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tQQruMrzN_8/U3ynmmJVNUI/AAAAAAAAH9g/u6_HuaCzWv0/s1600/myplot.png>
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