[GRASS-user] d.text fail to load the font (osx)

massimo di stefano massimodisasha at yahoo.it
Tue Sep 25 09:43:21 EDT 2007


Hi,

i'm tring to use

d.text  on grass-6.3.cvs  builded from source on a mac osx

i'm tring to use it as described inthe help menu,  but it fail to  
load the font:

GRASS 6.3.cvs (wgs):~ > d.text << EOF
 > .C yellow
 > .S 4
 > .B 1
 > This is a test of d.text
 > EOF
WARNING: unable to open font map
          '/Applications/GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/fonts/.hmp': No  
such
          file or directory
GRASS 6.3.cvs (wgs):~ >


while using a line like :

d.mon x0
d.text 'text=text to display' size=5 color=gray align=ll rotation=0  
linespacing=1.25 path=/Applications/GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
fonts/italiccs.hmp

nothing is displayed.

i tried again using interactive place text flag :

d.text -m 'text=text to display' size=5 color=gray align=ll  
rotation=0 linespacing=1.25 font=italics path=/Applications/ 
GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/fonts/italiccs.hmp

but  while the menu :

Click!
Left:    Place text here
Right:   Quit

is corrected displayed,

in the window "Output - Gis.m"
i've the same message :

unable to open font map '/Applications/GRASS-6.3.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
fonts/.hmp': No such file or directory


seems that it do not use a "name"  for the font, but only the  
extension is passed to the command.

i'm missing something,  like i need to set a font first ?

or it is a knowed problem?

instead of d.text, now  i'm using d.text.freetype without problems  
(works really fine)
using as font the path to the x11 font (as described in the help).









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