Enabling fontconfig

[nickborg94]

Hello,

Apologies in advance if this does not belong here.

I'm trying to annotate several images using a specific font (Segoe Script). However, when I run:

install.packages("magick")
library(magick)

I get this in the console:

Linking to ImageMagick 6.9.9.14
Enabled features: cairo, freetype, fftw, ghostscript, lcms, pango, rsvg, webp
Disabled features: fontconfig, x11

My understanding is that fontconfig must be enabled to use custom fonts. I've searched a lot and haven't found a way to do this - I believe I would need a different version of magick, but every magick package I download always links me to ImageMagic 6.9.9.14 with fontconfig disabled.

Highly appreciate any assistance on this matter. Thanks in advance.

[jeroen]

Which OS are you on?

[nickborg94]

Hi Jeroen,

I'm on Windows 10, using RStudio 1.2.5042 and R 4.0.0.

R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

[jeroen]

Fontconfig is only required on Linux, it shouldn't be needed on Windows. Can you try again with magick 2.5.0, to see if your font can now be found?

[aljrico]

I'm having the exact same issue. I can't use custom fonts.

I tried running devtools::install_version('magick', version = "2.5.0")

Then when I run str(magick::magick_config()) it says the following:

List of 22
 $ version           :Class 'numeric_version'  hidden list of 1
  ..$ : int [1:4] 6 9 11 34
 $ modules           : logi FALSE
 $ cairo             : logi TRUE
 $ fontconfig        : logi FALSE
 $ freetype          : logi TRUE
 $ fftw              : logi TRUE
 $ ghostscript       : logi TRUE
 $ jpeg              : logi TRUE
 $ lcms              : logi TRUE
 $ libopenjp2        : logi TRUE
 $ lzma              : logi TRUE
 $ pangocairo        : logi TRUE
 $ pango             : logi TRUE
 $ png               : logi TRUE
 $ rsvg              : logi TRUE
 $ tiff              : logi TRUE
 $ webp              : logi TRUE
 $ wmf               : logi FALSE
 $ x11               : logi FALSE
 $ xml               : logi TRUE
 $ zero-configuration: logi TRUE
 $ threads           : int 1

As you can see, fontconfig is still FALSE.

I'm using Windows 10, and this is what version outputs:

platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32          
arch           x86_64                      
os             mingw32                     
system         x86_64, mingw32             
status                                     
major          4                           
minor          1.0                         
year           2021                        
month          05                          
day            18                          
svn rev        80317                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18)
nickname       Camp Pontanezen 

[JackDCornwall]

Did anyone find a solution to this? I am unable to use certain fonts and my fontconfig is disabled on windows 10 even though i installed through CRAN

[dwctran]

i still have the same problem :(

[jeroen]

The Windows version of imagemagick doesn't use fontconfig. It gets the fonts from the MS Windows APIs.

[MarkoKazimirovic]

Still not working properly. The workaround is to make a .png with the desired font and then insert it back.

text_you_want <- ggplot(NULL, aes(x = 1, y = 1)) + ylim(0.8, 1.2) +
  theme_void() +
  annotate("text", 
           1,
           1.1,
           family = "Cinzel Decorative", 
           size = 85,
           color = "green",
           label = "I really want latter in this font in green color") 

ggsave(text_you_want ,
       filename = "text_you_want.png",
       w = 10,
       h = 2)

  img <- image_read("image_for_labeling.png")
  text_inset <- image_read("text_you_want.png")

  new_inset <- image_scale(text_inset, "x300") 

  img_ <- image_composite(img, 
                          new_inset, 
                          gravity = "south",
                          offset = "-1500+100")

  image_write(image = img_,
              path = "image_labeled.png")