Re: [Gretl-users] Cannot Find Font Arial
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Paul Jones wrote:
Thanks for your response, but it hasn't helped. I didn't know
that fonts
needed to be istalled, I never needed to install fonts before.
Anyway, I installed vera and it still didn't work. Gretl makes the graph,
it's in the temporary .gretl directory, it just isn't displayed. I get the
error message instead.
I'm running debian testing here, and I'm having no problems like the one
you describe. However, this smells more like a gnuplot issue than anything
else. Try this:
1) open gretl and try a time-series graph
2) you should have in your $HOME/.gretl/ subdir a file called
gpttmp.<something>; that's a temporary gnuplot file we use for building
the png file that is what you have displayed on screen (or SHOULD have
displayed on screen)
3) copy that file somewhere else (say, $HOME/foo.gp)
4) open it with a text editor and remove (or comment) the first two lines
5) try gnuplot on that directly from the command line; that is, do
"gnuplot -persist ~/foo.gp"
If the plot appears, the problem is that for some reason your version of
gnuplot has problems with generating png files. Like I said, I'm running
testing and I've got gnuplot 4.2.4 here, but it appears unstable has
4.2.5.
Granted, it's just a shot in the dark, but you never know.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti