Re: [Gretl-users] Cannot Find Font Arial
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Paul Jones wrote:
Hi, I'm running Linux, Debian unstable, and I am getting an
error
message everytime I try to display a time series plot in gretl.
The error is:
"Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", using internal
non-scalable font"
Could you tell us, what version of gretl, and what version of
gnuplot?
Arial is gnuplot's default font for making PNG files. If that
font is present on your system but gnuplot is not finding it,
that's a Debian packaging bug. You could see what happens if you
create a file sin.gp, with content
set term png
set output 'sin.png'
plot sin(x)
then run 'gnuplot sin.gp'.
I suspect you'll get a PNG file using the ugly built-in font; and
I suspect that gretl is not showing the ugly-font PNG file because
it took the error message from gnuplot to indicate a fatal error.
This would be a mistake on gretl's part, but it has been fixed in
CVS for some time now.
Allin Cottrell