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[danielbot]

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[sammycage]

Text rendering requires font. Take a look at this issue #8

[danielbot]

Yes, that does it. For the record (and the next person who comes along with the same question) I added this:
document.loadFontFromFile("/usr/share/vlc/skins2/fonts/FreeSans.ttf");
and I got text. Thanks much for the quick response.
(edit) But of course you should use fontconfig to get the font path, not a hardcoded path in the vast majority of cases.

[sammycage]

But of course you should use fontconfig to get the font path, not a hardcoded path in the vast majority of cases.

I am currently working on it. It will be available in the next big update.