Re: [Gretl-users] Cannot Find Font Arial
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Paul Jones wrote:
I tried what Mr. Cottrell suggested, and I can produce a png file of
sin(x)
using gnuplot in unstable. But no matter how I try to set those
environmental variables I can't get Gretl to switch fonts and work.
I expected you'd be able to get a PNG file of some sort -- but
were you able to specify a truetype font? Perhaps the easiest way
to see this is in an interactive gnuplot session. Using the stock
gnuplot on Ubuntu 8.04, I get:
allin@myrtle:~$ /usr/bin/gnuplot
G N U P L O T
Version 4.2 patchlevel 2
last modified 31 Aug 2007
System: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic...
gnuplot> set term png font FreeSans
Terminal type set to 'png'
Could not find/open font when opening font FreeSans, using default
Options are 'nocrop medium '
But, setting the environment variable...
allin@myrtle:~$ GDFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont \
/usr/bin/gnuplot
G N U P L O T
Version 4.2 patchlevel 2
last modified 31 Aug 2007
System: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic ...
gnuplot> set term png font FreeSans
Terminal type set to 'png'
Options are 'nocrop font FreeSans 12 '
Allin Cottrell