Re: 3.6.1 produces eps files that are unusable on Debian wheezy

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 03/03/2012 01:41 PM, Mike Miller wrote:

> Yes, that part is mostly the same on the current default branch.
> However, I just found this code in get_fontname_and_size which is
> called before create_fontspec.
>
>    if (isempty (t.fontname) || strcmp (t.fontname, "*"))
>      fnt = "{}";
>    else
>      fnt = t.fontname;
>    endif
>
> I think this is where the "{}" font name is coming from.

I thought about this.  With the above hunk of code, instead of

set(0, 'defaultaxesfontname', 'Helvetica');

in your startup script, the following will produce the default font 
inside gnuplot:

set(0, 'defaultaxesfontname', ' ');

Note the single space, not empty string.

Dan