"RRDTool Default Font Path"

[panden]

What is "RRDTool Default Font Path"?
Would be great if anyone could explain what this "RRDTool Default Font" is for

[mshook]

What is "RRDTool Default Font Path"?
Would be great if anyone could explain what this "RRDTool Default Font" is for

With rrdtool version 1.2 and above you can select a TrueType Font that will be used to generate the graphs.

[Frances]

This is a relatively recent feature of RRDTool 1.2.x which has partial support in Cacti. It allows you to specify a TTF (True-Type Font) to be used in the drawing of your graphs where other fonts have not been specified (legend font, title font, et al). In general you'll want to use a mono spaced font so that auto-padding still works correctly (variable width fonts will throw off auto-padding).

[panden]

Sounds good.

Thanks!

[TheWitness]

More is on the way as well. I will put something in the Official Patches when it's ready.

TheWitness

[fmangeant]

Hi Larry

do you plan to include the font smoothing strength modification I posted here : http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=7520 ?

Also, I think it would be a good idea to let the slope mode as an option, here's what the rrdgraph man page tells about it : http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webto ... ph.en.html

[-E|--slope-mode]

RRDtool graphs are composed of stair case curves by default. This is in line with the way RRDtool calculates its data. Some people favor a more 'organic' look for their graphs even though it is not all that true.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

[TheWitness]

There are two files in CVS "BRANCH_0_8_6" that you should be interested in. They are:

lib\rrd.php
include\config_settings.php

If you download these two, you will have the slope mode and much more font control. I am contemplating one more change, and that will be it for 0.8.6.

Then the focus will be completely on 0.9, which is going to be a VERY exciting release.

TheWitness

CVS if Located Here: http://cvs.cacti.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/

[panden]

Sounds great TheWitness. Any ETA for 0.9?

[rony]

We are thinking late summer...

I will be having more time to work on it now...

[jimmygift]

Hi,

just applied the mentioned patch to get Slope Mode Control, rrd.php works fine, but config_settings.php produces the following errors:

Notice: Use of undefined constant CACTI_BASE_PATH - assumed 'CACTI_BASE_PATH' in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cacti/include/config_settings.php on line 25

Warning: main(CACTI_BASE_PATH/include/graph/graph_arrays.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cacti/include/config_settings.php on line 25

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'CACTI_BASE_PATH/include/graph/graph_arrays.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cacti/include/config_settings.php on line 25

Notice: Use of undefined constant CACTI_BASE_PATH - assumed 'CACTI_BASE_PATH' in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cacti/include/config_settings.php on line 26

Warning: main(CACTI_BASE_PATH/include/config_arrays.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cacti/include/config_settings.php on line 26

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'CACTI_BASE_PATH/include/config_arrays.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cacti/include/config_settings.php on line 26

Fatal error: Call to undefined function _() in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/cacti/include/config_settings.php on line 30


I copied back my previous config_settings script on the cacti path and the errors went away. I kept the rrd.php file and got smoother graphs, which was my initial intention so I'm happy with the results.

So I suppose the downside is I'm not getting the new control parameters present on the latest config_settings script on CVS and rrd.php is just adjusting the graphs without even asking me for that option, Ok.

Do I have have any option for making the config_settings script work as intenteded ?

Thanks very much.

P.S. Great job. Excellent software !!

[TheWitness]

Please apply the patches at the following location: http://www.cacti.net/downloads/patches/ ... re-patched The files you applied are for the next release of Cacti.

TheWitness