Re: [Gnuplot-info] Adjusting Font and Label Position

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 07.06.2011 01:33, Rich Shepard wrote:

>     Strange. That doesn't work, either. If I specify "Times" it works. Except,
> when I go to export the grphic and 'set terminal png' there's an error
> message that gp cannot find "Arial" (probably because I don't have that
> installed) and it defaults to some non-scalable typeface.

You're silently assuming that font selection must somehow be the same 
for all terminals.  It's not.

>     I have quite a few Type1, TrueType, and Bitstream fonts installed here.

The problem with that idea is that you assume that there is a single, 
well-defined meaning to "installing" a font.  There isn't.

> I'm sure there's a name that gp will recognize

What you're still not getting is that gnuplot itself recognizes _no_ 
fonts at all.  It's your output system (TeX, PostScript, freetype, 
cairo, whatever) that does that.  So every driver will usually have a 
different set of fonts.