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

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On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:14:32 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rsh...@ap...> wrote:

> 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"

set t

t = terminal not title

Have you tried running your commands interactively? gnuplot version?


> 
> 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?