Will’s Web Miscellany

I needed to install rmagick over the weekend as I was playing with the file_column plugin. Rubygems has usually been good to me so I didn’t expect any problems when I issued the command:

#gem install rmagick
<snip>
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/misc.rb:321:in `get_type_metrics': unable to read font `/usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType/verdana.ttf' (Magick::ImageMagickError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/misc.rb:321:in `render'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/misc.rb:696:in `text'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/text.rb:65:in `add_primitives'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/container.rb:72:in `add_primitives'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/container.rb:72:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/container.rb:72:in `add_primitives'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/rvg.rb:264:in `add_outermost_primitives'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/rvg.rb:264:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/rvg.rb:264:in `add_outermost_primitives'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./lib/rvg/rvg.rb:236:in `draw'
from InitialCoords.rb:22
post-setup.rb: InitialCoords.rb example returned error code 256

Uh-oh. It seems I was missing some windows specific fonts. Well obviously, I am using Linux. With no obvious package with the missing fonts available in yum I went looking and found this windows font rpm.

After installing and linking the font dir to the place rmagick expects them:

ln -s /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType

That done #gem install rmagick works!

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