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Nick Coelius
Nick Coelius

Reputation: 4746

Heroku Not Recognizing Rmagick Font

My Heroku app doesn't appear to want to recognize ANY kind of rmagick font family. In the following situation I would expect the font to be Times New Roman, but it is instead some system default. I've tried changing to Helvetica, and it's the same result - generic looking system font of some sort. 

canvas = Magick::Image.read("caption:#{@statement.text}"){
            self.size = "300x300"
            self.colorspace = RGBColorspace
            self.background_color = 'white'
            self.font = "TimesNewRoman"
            # self.font = "Helvetica"
            self.gravity = CenterGravity
            self.pointsize = 26
        }.first

I've run identify -list font and observed that both TimesNewRoman and Helvetica are recognized by the system, but my image refuses to use them.

Bonus context: this is for the preview image in an og:image meta tag for display in Messages/Facebook Messager/etc. If I futz with the font family and display the image directly onto an html page there's no problem and it uses the appropriate font.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 311

Answers (1)

Nick Coelius
Nick Coelius

Reputation: 4746

Per comment in the chain above:

Wowwwwwwwwww...apparently it's as easy as adding a .fonts folder to the root of your Heroku app and then moving your font into there - once you do that you can just reference the font directly when setting it onto ImageMagick...

So...yeah.

.fonts
| - "SF-Pro-Text-Light.otf
| - "SF-Pro-Text-Regular.otf

and

canvas = Magick::Image.read("caption:#{@statement.text}"){
        self.size = "300x300"
        self.colorspace = RGBColorspace
        self.background_color = 'white'
        self.font = "SF-Pro-Text-Light"
        self.gravity = CenterGravity
        self.pointsize = 26
    }.first

Upvotes: 1

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