Using CSS3 @font-face with wkhtmltopdf on Centos5

Centos5 has an outdated version of libfontconfig which will cause this error if you try and reference a font:

wkhtmltopdf: symbol lookup error: wkhtmltopdf: undefined symbol: FcFreeTypeQueryFace

The issue was reported here with some useful instructions (actually it’s just a dependancy issue).

To fix, first you’ll need freetype-devel:
sudo yum install freetype-devel

Then following this advice, I did something like this:

wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf fontconfig-2.4.2.tar.gz
cd fontconfig-2.4.2
./configure -prefix=/usr
make
# I moved the file file into /usr/lib manually (don't trust 'make install' on a production box)
sudo mv ./src/.libs/libfontconfig.so.1.2.0 /usr/lib/
# and setup the libfontconfig.so.1 symlink
cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libfontconfig.so.1.2.0 libfontconfig.so.1

Thanks to everyone for their awesome help…