From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mscgen-0.20-2
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EF0A72.9020609@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54EE31F0.3050005@tiscali.co.uk>
On 25.02.2015 21:34, David Stacey wrote:
> On 25/02/2015 07:27, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 19.02.2015 um 00:05 schrieb David Stacey:
>>> The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> * mscgen-0.20-2
>>>
>>> Mscgen is a small programme that parses Message Sequence Chart
>>> descriptions and produces PNG, SVG, EPS or server side image maps
>>> (ismaps) as the output.
>>>
>>> This release has been built with libgd3 and three patches from Fedora.
>> Please rebuild the package with
>> configure --with-freetype
>> so the font selection option -F can be used.
>
> I tried rebuilding with '--with-freetype'. mscgen builds but always
> exits with an error code. This is because gdImageStringFT() always
> returns the string 'Could not set character size'. By default, the
> code is trying to use the 'helvetica' font. I have a goodly selection
> of font packages installed. Any ideas?
I had similar problems until I found out how to configure fonts. This is
very poorly documented.
With /etc/fonts/fonts.conf pointing to ~/.fonts, it is actually
sufficient to link your font directory to ~/.fonts
and you can address all fonts contained therein (including subfolders)
by their name like in
mscgen -T png -F "Droid Sans"
(Somehow by removing this font configuration, I cannot reproduce the
'Could not set...' errors anymore I had yesterday - weird.)
------
Thomas
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[not found] <announce.54E51AC4.9030506@tiscali.co.uk>
2015-02-25 7:27 ` Thomas Wolff
2015-02-25 20:35 ` David Stacey
2015-02-26 11:58 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2015-02-26 19:41 ` Thomas Wolff
2015-02-26 22:56 ` David Stacey
2015-02-27 10:24 ` Thomas Wolff
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