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

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

> 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.

   My copy of "Gnuplot in Action" arrived today. On page 206 (listing 11.3)
is this example:

set t png font FreeSans 11
set t png font "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/FreeSans.ttf, 11"

   In my script I tried both ways; for example,

set t "Daily Precipitation 2008-2010: CC-OR-8" font "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType/verdanab, 15"

yet when setting the terminal they both produce the same result:

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

   BTW, I have the arial fonts installed in that same directory.

   What am I still missing?

Rich