gnuplot Arial font replace with what?

MrUmunhum · 07-01-2010, 03:42 PM

Hi group,
I have a running problem with Gnuplot. It is complaining about:

Code:

gnuplot> set term png 
Terminal type set to 'png'
Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", using internal non-scalable font
Options are 'nocrop medium '
gnuplot>

I have spent hours looking for a work around and it looks like the only 'fix' is to override the 'default' font. So I need to find out which fonts I have on my system. A 'locate' for 'fonts' shows a boat load of them.

How can I tell which ones to use??

Thanks for your time.

HeSaid · 07-01-2010, 07:36 PM

On a debian system the truetype fonts (of which arial belongs) can be found by

Code:

locate ttf

why not install msttcorefonts and then you would have arial?
--
Neal

MrUmunhum · 07-02-2010, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HeSaid

On a debian system the truetype fonts (of which arial belongs) can be found by

Code:

locate ttf

why not install msttcorefonts and then you would have arial?
--
Neal

Well, that is what I did ( I think )!

I found this link http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/. And after hours of downloading ( very slow dialup ), it got installed but no joy on step 8, the

Code:

xlsfonts | grep ^-microsoft

Must be an old How to?

MrUmunhum · 07-04-2010, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrUmunhum

Well, that is what I did ( I think )!

I found this link http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/. And after hours of downloading ( very slow dialup ), it got installed but no joy on step 8, the

Code:

xlsfonts | grep ^-microsoft

Must be an old How to?

Well, I got gnuplot to find the new fonts by using:

Code:

export GDFONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/

in my .bash_profile.
Still don't see why a Linux version pf gnuplot requires M$ fonts??

ben_fredrickson · 08-10-2011, 07:55 PM

set term png enhanced font '/usr/share/fonts/liberation/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf' 12