Victor, 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 ...
cheers tobi Monday Victor Engmark wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > * > > -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
