Re: tiny fonts with wxt term

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

On Friday 01 September 2006 01:54 am, Richard Henwood wrote:
> I just tried 'set term png font budmo' (i have budmo.ttf) and this exposed
> the fact that my GDFONTPATH wasn't set... I've fixed that: PNG works but
> problem remains in wxt.

It is an unfortunate fact that the font handling mechanisms for the
different terminal types are all different. They are not really under
our control, as it is done by external libraries.

The png/jpeg/gif terminals use libgd (with libfreetype underneath).

PostScript depends on the printer to find its own fonts, although
we do provide a mechanism for embedding fonts if necessary.

wxt - I don't understand very well, except that it uses pango

svg - I *really* don't understand very well, except to know that it
      seems to depend on the svg viewing program.  The Adobe svg
      plugin only recognizes fonts in some proprietary format.
      The firefox and konqueror svg plugins find at least some
      of my system fonts.  But I have not been able to get any of
      the plugins to find a font by its URL.

x11 - Simple fonts are easy.  Fancy stuff like multi-byte fonts or
      alternate character encodings are problematic.  Gnuplot
      provides   set term x11 font "mbfont:aa,bb,cc"
      for these cases, but setting it up correctly is difficult.

pdf - depends on the viewing program

windows, pm, etc - I don't use, and don't know anything about fonts.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742