#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 hellik):
Replying to [comment:51 hellik]:
> Replying to [comment:47 annakrat]:
> > Replying to [comment:44 hellik]:
> > > Replying to [comment:42 annakrat]:
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, no change. I wonder if the problem is something
different then permissions.
> > >
> > > I'm quite sure that it is a file writing permission issue in a
usually non-writeable folder (c:\Program Files\your program\folder to
change something) in win 8 and above.
> > >
> > > tested it on several win 7 boxes here, it works fine. unfortunately
no win 8 oder win 10 box here on my side.
> >
> > If you want to spend even more time on it, you can download/use
windows 10 for free, and run it in virtual box. But it is not just windows
10 issue from what I've seen.
>
> see
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-September/076229.html
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-September/076234.html
>
> GRASS_FONT_CAP
> [g.mkfontcap, d.font, display drivers]
> specifies an alternative location (to $GISBASE/etc/fontcap) for the
font
> configuration file.
>
> this may the way to go using it in the winGRASS-installer.
a possible procedure:
the windows variable where all users have access: %ALLUSERSPROFILE% [1]
(1) add to
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/mswindows/env.bat
set GRASS_FONT_CAP=%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\GRASS7
(2) create by winGRASS installer folder %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\GRASS7
(3) add to run_gmkfontcap.bat
set GRASS_FONT_CAP=%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\GRASS7
(3) run run_gmkfontcap.bat by the installer
[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749104(v=ws.10).aspx
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