[rt-users] Bug in Chart fonts handling

[Jesse Vincent]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Emmanuel Lacour wrote:

>
> I played with chart module and found that the fonts settings are
> incorrect.
>
> In share/html/Search/Chart, the only font setting is made by  
> set_legend_font, but there
> is no legends on graphs so ... not very usefull.
>
> Instead it would be better to use one or every of the followings:
>

We've actually already done a fair bit of this in RT 3.7. I'm hoping  
to start tightening up RT 3.8 for release "soon"

-jesse

> For bars:
>
> set_x_label_font
> set_y_label_font
> set_x_axis_font
> set_y_axis_font
> set_values_font
>
> For pies:
>
> set_label_font
> set_value_font
>
>
> Also it's often needed to specify the font path, here is a tested
> example:
>
> use GD::Text;
> GD::Text->font_path("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera");
>
> And of course, if those settings can be customized in  
> RT_SiteConfig.pm,
> it would be very nice ;)
>
> That's my two cents...
>
>
> Here is my current diff (RT 3.6.3), also replacing the default non- 
> free (verdana) by free fonts from bitstream:
>
> --- ./share/html/Search/Chart	2007-10-10 17:41:24.000000000 +0200
> +++ ./local/html/Search/Chart	2007-10-10 17:46:00.000000000 +0200
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
>  my $chart_class;
>  use GD;
>  use GD::Text;
> +GD::Text->font_path("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera");
>
>  if ($ChartStyle eq 'pie') {
>      require GD::Graph::pie;
> @@ -34,7 +35,15 @@
>          y_label => 'Tickets',
>          show_values => 1
>      );
> -    $chart->set_legend_font( ['verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 12);
> +    $chart->set_legend_font( ['VeraBd', 'verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 12);
> +    $chart->set_x_label_font( ['VeraBd', 'verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 12);
> +    $chart->set_y_label_font( ['VeraBd', 'verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 12);
> +    $chart->set_x_axis_font( ['Vera', 'verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 10);
> +    $chart->set_y_axis_font( ['Vera', 'verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 10);
> +    $chart->set_values_font( ['Vera', 'verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 10);
> +} elsif ($chart_class eq "GD::Graph::pie") {
> +    $chart->set_label_font( ['VeraBd', 'verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 12);
> +    $chart->set_value_font( ['Vera', 'verdana', 'arial',  
> gdMediumBoldFont], 10);
>  }
>
>  my %class = (
>
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