Re: Font problem with png terminal 2.9.17+

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello

Is this really octave issue?
Did you send a mail gnuplot ML on this issue?

Tatsuro
 
> Using gnuplot directly I get this:
> gnuplot> set terminal png font helvetica
> Terminal type set to 'png'
> Could not find/open font when opening font helvetica, using default
> Options are 'nocrop medium size 640,480 '
> 
> After some googling I found out that  one can set the variable 
> GDFONTPATH to point
> to the TrueType fonts but I have no (and can't find) helvetica.ttf font 
> file on my (up-to-date)
> Gentoo system.
> 
> ls /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ gives:
> 
> andalemo.ttf  comic.ttf    encodings.dir  georgiaz.ttf  trebuc.ttf    
> verdanai.ttf
> arial.ttf     comicbd.ttf  fonts.dir      impact.ttf    trebucbd.ttf  
> verdanaz.ttf
> arialbd.ttf   cour.ttf     fonts.scale    times.ttf     trebucbi.ttf  
> webdings.ttf
> arialbi.ttf   courbd.ttf   georgia.ttf    timesbd.ttf   trebucit.ttf
> ariali.ttf    courbi.ttf   georgiab.ttf   timesbi.ttf   verdana.ttf
> ariblk.ttf    couri.ttf    georgiai.ttf   timesi.ttf    verdanab.ttf
> 
> so if I do an export GDFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/ then, for 
> example,
> 
> gnuplot> set terminal png font arial
> Terminal type set to 'png'
> Options are 'nocrop font arial 12 size 640,480 '
> 
> works fine (but not set terminal png font helvetica).  I'm not sure if 
> this is
> a Gentoo, octave, gnuplot, or gd problem.
> 
> /Fredrik
> 
> 
> 
> 


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