Re: Font problem with png terminal 2.9.17+

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Dec-2007, Fredrik Lingvall wrote:

| 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.

Maybe this should be fixed in gnuplot then, so that it switches to
using the default font if it can't find the one that is specified.

jwe