Comments on: Using OS X fonts in ImageMagick

By: ImageMagick missing fonts in OS X Lion | nickmathis.com

ImageMagick missing fonts in OS X Lion | nickmathis.com — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:19:06 +0000

[…] can be fixed by following the suggestions from http://gothick.org.uk/2008/03/14/using-os-x-fonts-in-imagemagick/ […]

By: Vic

Vic — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:49:42 +0000

You are my hero.

To add to what Henry said, I ran into an error when running

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

while in a sym-linked directory. To get around this, I did

cd /

beforehand.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:12:42 +0000

Excellent tutorial! I followed and now when I type ‘convert –list font’ I can see the list of fonts. However, I still get a weird message:

“delegate library support not built-in ‘/Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf’ (Freetype).”

Do any of you have any idea how to fix that?

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:36:03 +0000

On Snow Leopard, after running:

sudo launchctl load –w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

run:

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

to create the database.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:50:30 +0000

Hi mini,

Running the launchctl script will only set up the rebuild of the locate database to be run as a job once a week. If you want to build the locate database right now, try:

sudo /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate

…hopefully that’ll still work in Snow Leopard, which I guess is the OS you’re using? This article was written for Leopard, so some things may have moved around a little.

Also, if that command works, it will still take take some time to complete. The “locate” database is basically a cache of all the filenames on your entire hard drive, so it takes time to build…

By: mini

mini — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:31:28 +0000

Hi,
Iam a windows user switching to mac and having a tough time getting to run imagemagick
I followed your tutorial ..iam not getting my fonts yet. i did sudo for fondu , then tried to run the perlscript..like this.

perl imagick_type_gen.pl

and iam getting this error.

The locate database (/var/db/locate.database) does not exist.
To create the database, run the following command:

sudo launchctl load –w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist

i run this and still the fonts are not recognised by imagemagicks.
Please help

By: gothick

gothick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:21:04 +0000

@Daniel — Oops! Thanks for pointing that out; I’ve fixed the original now!

By: Daniel Brauer

Daniel Brauer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:17:26 +0000

Great tutorial! The only mistake I encountered was the fondu invocation, which refers to the misspelled “Libarary”

By: Aral Balkan - Links for 2009-01-16

Aral Balkan - Links for 2009-01-16 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:04:54 +0000

[…] Using OS X fonts in ImageMagick « Gothick.org.uk Fondu extracts the fonts from .dfont files, effectively sucking out all the standard font goodness from these “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” bundles. […]

By: Alma

Alma — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:45:00 +0000

if you do this with graphicsmagick, type.xml should be named type.mgk…
additionally you will have to export the path to the config-folder in your .bashrc like so: export MAGICK_CONFIGURE_PATH=/Users/myuname/.magick

cheers