Re: [Gnuplot-info] Symbol font in enhanced mode with png

[Martin D. W. <wei...@as...>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:42:09 +0200 (CEST)
Hans-Bernhard Broeker <br...@ph...> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Martin Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > I seem to have a problem accessing the symbol font in enhanced mode
> > with the png terminal.  Superscripts and subscripts work fine but
> > use of the symbol font gives me:
> > 
> > 	gdImageStringFT: Could not find/open font
> > 
> > I have installed symbol.ttf.   Has anybody got a clue?  Thanks!!
> 
> Installed it *where*?  How exactly is gnuplot informed about it?

I copied it to /usr/share/fonts/truetype, the dir which contains the
truetype fonts.  libgd is clearly able to find this path since it finds
the Arial font in this same directory, that I specified in the "set
terminal" command.

> How did you try to access it?

By using a specific enhanced font command, e.g. "{/Symbol=18 k}" for
kappa.

> And what computing platform are we talking about, anyway?

Debian Linux (sarge).

I *did* manage to get this to work by coping symbol.ttf to another
directory (I used /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype) and then set the
GDFONTPATH explicitly to
/usr/share/fonts/truetype:/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype. I'm not sure
why this worked but the default location did not, but there we have it. It
works wonderfully now.

Thanks all for your replies!

--Martin