From: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to make fonts available to a service?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:59:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <087B3C4D-4A3D-435B-826A-0BD2D475A122@vllmrt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2922F2BE-80D0-4A9E-8F74-AF02546E032A@vllmrt.net>
> On 12. Jul 2019, at 22:42, Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net> wrote:
> I’m a bit at a loss right now with respect to how to make fonts available
> to system services.
>
> I’m running a service that uses rsvg-convert (from package librsvg) to
> raster some SVG graphics. However, it appears that the default fonts
> are missing some Unicode character.
>
> It seems that I can make fonts available in my user profile by installing
> the corresponding font package, and those would be available to rsvg-convert
> via fontconfig via ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts. But how would I do the
> same for a service?
It turns out this was easy to fix, by adding a font package to the list
of installed packages in the operating system definition.
(and apologies for sending this to -devel instead of help-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-13 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-12 20:42 how to make fonts available to a service? Robert Vollmert
2019-07-13 14:59 ` Robert Vollmert [this message]
2019-07-13 15:29 ` Timothy Sample
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