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

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Martin D. Weinberg wrote:

> 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.

I suspect you overlooked updating the catalog file in that directory,
then.  Generally speaking, it's probably not a good plan to tinker with
the contents of directories owned by the distribution like that.  This
kind of work is what the /usr/local hierarchy is for.

The libfreetype experts can probably enlighten your more thoroughly...

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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