Re: windows ttf fonts

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 17 July 2006 04:07 pm, BBands wrote:
> --- Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > What happens if you say
> >   set term png font "C:\WINNT\fonts\times.ttf"
>
> set term png font "C:\WINNT\fonts\times.ttf"
> fails
> set term png font "C:\\WINNT\\fonts\\times.ttf"
> works

Yes, sorry. I'm not used to those backslashes in file names :-)

> set font path "c:\\winnt\\fonts"
>
> Does not fix the problem.

"set fontpath" is not relevant to the PNG driver.
The font path for libgd is controlled by the environmental
variable GDFONTPATH.  Please see the libgd documentation,
as I'm not sure if there are other mechanisms provided on
Windows.

> This was brought up by the rotated text message in the
> png test plot. With ttf fonts does the png term
> support the 45 degree rotations?

Yes, certainly.  That's been true for 5 years or so.
See the demos
  http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/textrotate.html
	

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA