Re: Font problem with png terminal 2.9.17+

[Fredrik Lingvall]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  4-Dec-2007, dbateman wrote:
>
> | Fredrik Lingvall wrote:
> | > 
> | > I have this issue with printing to png files:
> | > 
> | > octave:1> figure(1)
> | > octave:2> plot(randn(100,1))
> | > octave:3> xlabel('x')
> | > octave:4> print -dpng test.png
> | > gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font while printing string x with 
> | > font helvetica
> | > 
> | 
> | Ok, I couldn't check the png terminal on my rough gnuplot 4.2.2
> | installation. I suppose that in fact the best way to deal with this is to
> | have a fontname "default" and don't try to set the fontname at all if the
> | fontname is "default". However this might cause issues with the TeX
> | \fontname option, but I think we can live with that
>
> I'm not sure I see the need to fix this problem.  Isn't the message
> from gnuplot just a warning?
>
> jwe
>   
No, all strings that uses the helvetica font is absent in the png files.
That is,
everything except the axis tick labels.

/F