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

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 07:12:16 am Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 01:23, Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote:
> >
> >> PostScript is a page description language, and as such it knows absolutely
> >> nothing about font-searching.
> >
> > Oh, thanks for clarifying. I see now that it only writes the font name
> > into file, no matter whether that font exists anywhere. It doesn't try
> > to do any embedding of fonts. I thought that PostScript terminal would
> > also embed fonts, but I was apparently wrong.
> 
> I guess by "it" you mean the traditional gnuplot postscript 
> terminal. Yes, it just passes through any font request given 
> by the user, without any check on the availablility of the 
> font. It's then up to the PostScript interpreter to find the 
> font or substitute a default.

It is possible to embed a font in the PostScript output if you want to, 
using the "fontfile" option. See the "fontfile.dem" demo.
But this is not the default.