[Gretl-users] gretl graphs on Linux

Sorry, I thought I'd sent this message to the list, but I guess I only sent it to Cri Rigamonti. For the record, I'll post it here, since the fonts-in-graphs problem on Linux seems quite widespread, and we have a solution here. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:38:17 -0500 (EST) From: Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu&gt; To: Cristian Rigamonti <cri(a)linux.it&gt; Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] gretl-gnuplot bug? (TrueType needed) On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Cristian Rigamonti wrote: For the benefit of gretl users on Linux who have never seen this fabled dialog entry, I'm attaching a PNG screenshot! Thanks very much for trying this experiment. It confirms what I suspected, namely that the Debian installation of gnuplot does not support the use of TrueType fonts without special efforts. "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf" (special effort: line broken for readability). OK, we are in business! For the cognoscenti, the recipe is this: #!/bin/sh FDIR=$(dirname `locate Vera.ttf | tail -1`) export GDFONTPATH=$FDIR to be executed prior to running gretl. Now we just have to figure out how to make this user-friendly! Allin Cottrell.