# Error with Cairo and Fontconfig

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-with-cairo-and-fontconfig/25025
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-with-cairo-and-fontconfig/25025 "2019-06-06T21:19:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![B.Vangod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@B.Vangod](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/B.Vangod)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-with-cairo-and-fontconfig/25025/1 "2019-06-06T21:19:21Z")

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I saw a few links that may have given me a solution, but in the end it was not really effective for me. I hope this is the right forum to post this.

I’ve been using DataFrames, DataFramesMeta, Gadfly, CSV (and sometimes a few others) to practice with Julia (and statistics). Things went well, except that, any time I load up Cairo and Fontconfig for PDF support, I get an error after a Gadfly.plot().

I am now refraining from using Cairo and Fontconfig, but that’s of course something I shouldn’t want to do. Is there a solution?

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### Author: ![jpsamaroo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jpsamaroo/32/46804_2.png) [@jpsamaroo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jpsamaroo)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-with-cairo-and-fontconfig/25025/2 "2019-06-06T23:49:41Z")

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Can you provide an MWE of what you’re trying to do, as well as the output of `versioninfo()` from the REPL? Also, please check out the following post for general posting guidelines; it helps to get a quick, on-topic response 🙂

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