How to install graphicsmagick with freetype support in heroku?

Question

I'm trying to get GraphicsMagick to work on a heroku-20 stack, but am running into issues.

All the buildpacks I could find either were not working on the 20 stack, or if they did, they didn't include freetype support.

My "best try" was using

• https://github.com/bogini/heroku-buildpack-graphicsmagick
• https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-apt

to get at least the gm command to work, however, when trying to apply some text on an image, i run into this error:

 Error: Command failed: gm convert: FreeType library is not available (/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb) [No such file or directory].

Did anyone manage to get this working, or point me to how could I approach this problem?

Answer 1

I faced the same problem. And finally, I solved the problem and now the gm library is working perfectly.

First, you should make your Heroku stack be: Heroku-18

by run this in terminal

$ heroku stack:set heroku-18

Second, you should add these two Buildpack in Heroku:

https://github.com/DuckyTeam/heroku-buildpack-imagemagick

https://github.com/xerpa/heroku-buildpack-graphicsmagick.git

like this: Note: The order is important

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The final Heroku project settings must be like this: