This is a single post from deeden.co.uk made during the period May 2002 to April 2009. During a previous grand redesign I decided to make a break with the past and consign the old entries to history. This entry is from October 2007 and lives here forevermore.

Installing rmagick on OS X

If you’re trying to install RMagick from source under OS X and you receive a message containing “'get_type_metrics': unable to read font '/Library/Fonts/Verdana' (Magick::ImageMagickError)” or something similar then try running configure with the --disable-htmldoc option. That will disable the building of the example documents which is where the error is occurring.

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