The Vose Way: Rmagick OS X Verdana

Rmagick OS X Verdana

vosechu@create-on.com (Chuck Vose) — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:18:00 -0500

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

"Rmagick OS X Verdana" by Will

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:53:34 -0500

Dude, thanks. Helpful.

"Rmagick OS X Verdana" by Tim Hunter

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:13:46 -0500

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!