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Re: montage: unable to read font...


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri@yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> --- Gustavo Seabra  ha scritto:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Gustavo Seabra
>> <gustavo.seabra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have ImageMagick 6.4.0 installed here (in
>> Cygwin). After the last
>> > upgrade, using setup.exe, I started getting the
>> following messages
>> > anytime I run ImageMagick's 'montage':
>> >
>> > $ montage -label '%f' temp_??.png -geometry +5+5
>> -tile 3x3 -frame 5
>> > -shadow temp_page.png
>> > montage: unable to read font
>> >
>>
> `/usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.4.0/config//usr/share/fonts/corefonts/arial.ttf'.
>> > montage: unable to read font
>> >
>>
> `/usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.4.0/config//usr/share/fonts/corefonts/arial.ttf'.
>> > [...]
>> > $
>
>
> On the /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.4.0/config/
> the xml files report as directory where the font
> should be:
>
> /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/
>
> but this directory does not exist.
>
> workaround
>
> $ cd /usr/share
> $ mkdir fonts
> $ cd fonts
> $ ln -s /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Fonts corefonts
>
> so now
> /usr/share/fonts/corefonts
>
> will link to
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Fonts
>
> where the TTF font of windows are.
>
> Regards
> Marco

It works like a charm.

Thanks!!
Gustavo.

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