Re: gd & fontpath (could not find/open font)

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 23:55, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> I'm still experiencing a problem with
>>
>>> set term png
>>
>>   Terminal type set to 'png'
>>   Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", using internal
>> non-scalable font
>
> Urgh. Why on earth are you using libgd (whose font handling is beyond
> redemption) rather than the cairo-based PNG terminal?

I'm not. I'm just annoyed by the error and I would like to fix it.

Or - more precisely - macports builds gnuplot with gd2 by default, so
"set term png" ends up with gd2 instead of cairo. On default gnuplot
install this would use cairo when available.

Maybe gnuplot on macports should be changed, so that gd2 would not be
built by default (if that is the preference/recommendation of gnuplot
developers)?

(Independent of that I would also like to know how font searching
works in PostScript, but that has a lower priority.)

Mojca