Issues using true type fonts

[Syngress]

Hi,

I am having some issues using truetype fonts in 0.9...I specify in my conf file the name of the font I want to use, and the font is in my weathermap directory, now if I use the web editor to add a new node or make a small change it seems to remove the line in my conf file that is defining the font.

i.e. it removes this line

FONTDEFINE 20 Tahoma 12

Any ideas?

[Howie]

Hi,

I am having some issues using truetype fonts in 0.9...I specify in my conf file the name of the font I want to use, and the font is in my weathermap directory, now if I use the web editor to add a new node or make a small change it seems to remove the line in my conf file that is defining the font.

i.e. it removes this line

FONTDEFINE 20 Tahoma 12

Any ideas?

If you add that line, use the font, and NOT edit the map in the editor, does the font appear in the map correctly after one poller cycle?

I think you'll find that it doesn't and that in the cacti.log is a line like

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Failed to load ttf font Tahoma - at config line 12

Because of the way the config reading and writing works, if the font is invalid, it doesn't get written back into the newly edited file.

So the problem is not that the editor removes it, but that the font is incorrectly specified. Unfortunately, the freetype library cabe funny about this. Try adding the .ttf extension, or using the full path to the (full, with .ttf) filename...

Of course, I could be guessing wrong But if the font isn't loaded, then the editor won't write it, so this seems the likely cause.

[Syngress]

Hi,

Thanks its now fixed, seems I needed to make sure the file had the .ttf extension, even though its not used in the config file.