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

[Ethan A M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 10:58:18 PM Jon wrote:
> 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, 

Then it must have been installed incorrectly.

> is there further help?

http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/docs_4.6/gnuplot.pdf

"Fonts" on page 32


In a nutshell put this in ~/.cshrc
setenv GDFONTPATH                /directory/where/your/fonts/live
setenv GNUPLOT_DEFAULT_GDFONT    yourpreferredfontname


Or the bash equivalent, if you are using bash.

	Ethan


> 
> 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
> >
> >