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

[m s. <mw...@us...>]

On 4/19/2012 9:09 AM, gnu...@li... wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:55:02 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Allin Cottrell<cot...@wf...>
> Subject: Re: gd&  fontpath (could not find/open font)
> To: Mojca Miklavec<moj...@gm...>
> Cc: gnuplot-beta<gnu...@li...>
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> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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>> I'm still experiencing a problem with
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>>> 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?
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> Allin Cottrell
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I use the libgd png/gif exclusively for output files.  We write plotting 
tools that have to run on Linux, Solaris and Windows.  Libgd was the 
simplest solution.  It gives us PNG and animated GIF.  Not all our users 
have the system privileges to install all the required packages for 
Cairo.  One other benefit is that we distribute some TTF fonts required 
for our toolset.   The text created by libgd when using TTF fonts is 
nearly indistinguishable than those created by pngcairo.

I have personally created graphs created with libgd and put them in 
presentations to very high level decision makers.  My charts look like 
they were created using Excel or Matlab depending who the target 
audience is.

My experience with libgd has been a positive one.

Mike S