Re: [Gretl-users] Cannot Find Font Arial
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Paul Jones wrote:
> Hi, I tried what Mr. Lucchetti suggested and sure enough it
> worked, and I did see a graph from gnuplot. So that means the
> problem must have been with the version of gnuplot in debian
> unstable.
If gretl and gnuplot don't play nice with each other in
unstable, it's probably appropriate to file a bug report to the
Debian guys. The Debian package maintainer for gretl, Dirk
Eddelbuettel has done an outstanding job for years and I am
certain he would take care of the issue appropriately, although
in my eyes it's not a gretl bug, but rather a gnuplot bug.
Agreed. I think the most relevant experiment would be to try
generating a PNG file manually using Debian's gnuplot 4.2.5,
e.g. using the simple example I gave in
http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2009-April/003112.html
set term png
set output 'sin.png'
plot sin(x)
If that produces _something_ one could then try specifying a
truetype font that is known to be available on the system (such
as, perhaps, Vera or FreeSans or DejaVuSans), e.g.
set term png font FreeSans
If that provokes a gnuplot error then it is a packaging bug:
gnuplot can't find the fonts that it should be able to find.
Allin