Re: png: selecting builtin font impossible?

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

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 05:13:09 Manfred Schwarb wrote:
>
> your change in term/png.trm of
> "revision 1.130, Thu Nov 20 06:14:41 2008 UTC" set "arial" as the
> font default.
> 
> Now, I can't select the builtin fonts any more.
> I tried
> "set term png small"
> "set term png small font small"
> "set term png font small"
> 
> but I always get Arial as the selected font.
> How to select the builtin fonts?

Why would you ever want to?

Font problems are the most common cause for complaint or requested
support with regard to the png terminal.  Neither enhanced text nor
internationalization work with the built-in fonts.  The rationale
for the change you point to was to make it as hard as possible to
end up with the built-in fonts.  I consider them as only a last
resort to be used in desperation.

Having said that, I would think you could defeat the search for
arial.ttf by clearing the GDFONTPATH environmental variable.
And you can certainly set the default font to something other than
arial.  For example, if you want a mono-spaced font you could set
GNUPLOT_DEFAULT_GDFONT to Courier (postscript font)
or couri (ttf equivalent).

-- 
Ethan A Merritt