Re: [Gnuplot-info] png term complains something and produces ugly figure

[Jon <dev...@gm...>]

Dear Ethan,

Thanks for your help, I don't want to bother the system manager, thus I
turned to the other way. But gnuplot does not return and entry for "help
fonts gd" or other similar helps, is there further help?

Thanks,




On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Ethan A Merritt <eam...@gm...>wrote:

> On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 10:03:17 PM Jon wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > When I use set term png, it always gives the following warning
> >
> > Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", using internal
> > non-scalable font
> >
> > and the plot generated is quite ugly as compared to say what python
> > generates. I would like to know how I could possibly remove this warning,
> > and improve the plot quality.
>
> - install the font?
> - pick a different font?
>
> See "help fonts gd"
>
>
> > The system I use is linux, more details
> > please let me know which command to use to find it out.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > John
>
>