Having upgraded to the upstream latest 2.31.20130722.0446 from ppa: gviz-adm/graphviz-dev, I still see the missing label problem with dotty. Rendering with 'dot' (to png, svg, ps, etc.) has always worked fine for me.
I have installed all of the Recommended: and Suggested: packages. FTR, my font resolution while rendering to png matches yours, close enough: === $ echo "digraph G { foo; }" | dot -v -Tpng -o foo.png dot - graphviz version 2.31.20130722.0446 (20130722.0446) libdir = "/usr/lib/graphviz" Activated plugin library: libgvplugin_pango.so.6 Using textlayout: textlayout:cairo Using render: cairo:cairo Using device: png:cairo:cairo Activated plugin library: libgvplugin_dot_layout.so.6 Using layout: dot:dot_layout The plugin configuration file: /usr/lib/graphviz/config6 was successfully loaded. render : cairo dot fig gd map pic pov ps svg tk vml vrml xdot layout : circo dot fdp neato nop nop1 nop2 osage patchwork sfdp twopi textlayout : textlayout device : bmp canon cmap cmapx cmapx_np dot eps fig gd gd2 gif gtk gv ico imap imap_np ismap jpe jpeg jpg pdf pic plain plain-ext png pov ps ps2 svg svgz tif tiff tk vml vmlz vrml wbmp x11 xdot xlib loadimage : (lib) eps gd gd2 gif jpe jpeg jpg png ps svg fontname: "Times-Roman" resolved to: (ps:pango Nimbus Roman No9 L, REGULAR) (PangoCairoFcFont) "Nimbus Roman No9 L, Regular" /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n021003l.pfb network simplex: 1 nodes 0 edges maxiter=2147483647 balance=1 network simplex: 1 nodes 0 edges 0 iter 0.00 sec Maxrank = 0, minrank = 0 mincross: pass 0 iter 0 trying 0 cur_cross 0 best_cross 0 mincross G: 0 crossings, 0.00 secs. network simplex: 1 nodes 0 edges maxiter=2147483647 balance=2 network simplex: 1 nodes 0 edges 0 iter 0.00 sec routesplines: 0 edges, 0 boxes 0.00 sec Using render: cairo:cairo Using device: png:cairo:cairo dot: allocating a 19K cairo image surface (83 x 59 pixels) gvRenderJobs G: 0.00 secs. === -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1016777 Title: dotty missing labels and context menu is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphviz/+bug/1016777/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs