AnnotationInfo() - Default Font Path Problem

[thomasrath]

Hello hello,

maybe someone has experience with this problem.
When i try to create an AnnotationInfo, Draft looks for the default font (SourceSansPro) somewhere in the network, in a directory that has not existed for years. I have copied the error message below:

2018-05-23 15:26:33: 0: STDOUT: Traceback (most recent call last):
2018-05-23 15:26:33: 0: STDOUT: File “\srv\PIPELINE\vast-deadline\vast\puf3\puf3_drafter_v001.py”, line 65, in
2018-05-23 15:26:33: 0: STDOUT: textInfo = Draft.AnnotationInfo()
2018-05-23 15:26:33: 0: STDOUT: RuntimeError: boost::filesystem::status: The network name cannot be found: “\minisrv\DeadlineRepository7\draft\Windows\32bit\SourceSansPro-Regular.otf”

Has anybody an idea why Draft is doing that? And is there a way to tell Draft where it has to look for fonts?

Thanks for every hint,
Thomas

[paul]

By default, Draft searches for fonts in the directories specified by the MAGICK_FONT_PATH and MAGICK_CONFIGURE_PATH environment variables. In your case, I assume that one of those environment variables is set to “\minisrv\DeadlineRepository7\draft\Windows\32bit”.

You can print out your environment variables in a Draft script by running this code:

import os
print os.environ

How are you running Draft?

Perhaps you have set one of these environment variables at the system level? (To check this, you can open a Command Prompt window, enter “set” without the quotes, and look for those environment variable names in the output.)

[thomasrath]

Hi Paul,

you are absolutely right. Some of your PCs had an old “MAGICK_CONFIGURE_PATH” environment variable set to this wrong path.
Now everything is working fine.

Many thanks!