#2448: Fontconfig error with cairo on Windows
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Reporter: annakrat | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.2
Component: Display | Version: 7.0.0
Resolution: | Keywords: font, text, legend, scale bar
CPU: Unspecified | Platform: MSWindows 8
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Comment (by wenzeslaus):
Replying to [comment:45 hellik]:
> Replying to [comment:43 wenzeslaus]:
> > Replying to [comment:42 annakrat]:
> > > Replying to [comment:41 hellik]:
> > > > I've done some research, file permissions changed a lot between
Windows versions (7,8,10).
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, no change. I wonder if the problem is something
different then permissions. The problem is I don't get any error during
installation. Maybe we could print more messages during the font
configuration? Thanks for all the work on this.
> >
> > What about that hardcoding of some fonts for MS Windows into a MS
Windows specific file? This is a great workaround and I have no idea how
it should be done but it seems that it is appropriate on a platform where
API is changing often and is under-documented.
Shouldn't be there a file with the default GRASS fonts somewhere already?
Or is everything generated?
> a feasable way may be:
>
> - another flag e.g. to write fontcap file to %APPDATA%GRASS7 where
already the addons are stored
How would this work in a multi-user environment?
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