Rmagick OS X Verdana

Posted by Chuck Vose Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:18:00 GMT

If you’re getting errors about Verdana not being found, specifically:

“unable to read font `/Library/Fonts/Verdana’ (Magick::ImageMagickError)”

try:

sudo apt-get install applesystemfonts
cp /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/Verdana.ttf /Library/Fonts/
sudo gem install rmagick

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  1. Avatar Tim Hunter said 13 days later:

    Nice tip, Chuck! An RMagick user ran into this problem, found your tip, and sent me a link to your blog. If it’s okay with you I’ll add this to the README file for my RMagick OS X installer script.

    I’m confused, though. When I do a fresh install of OS X 10.4 and then upgrade it to 10.4.9, the /Library/Fonts/Verdana file is present. Any idea why it would it get automatically installed for me but not for other people? I’m installing on a 15” PowerBook G4 PPC.

    Thanks!

  2. Avatar Will said 3 months later:

    Dude, thanks. Helpful.

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