[Gnuplot-info] Infomation symbol font in png terminal

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

Hello!! Octave maintainers.

cc. gnu...@li..., Shigeharu Takeno

Previously I wrote,
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2007-December/005188.html

For windows, there is a symbol.ttf. There has been no problem.
So I asked to the Gnuplot-info and gnuplot Q&A in Japan (Language is Japanese).
In the there were some information from the latter.

At the gd-2.0.34 + FreeType-2.1.3 or later, and the newest gnuplot (cvs),
the followings are possible.

 *In the gd-2.0.34 or later, the encode charmap of Adobe_Custom is now usable.
 *In the newest gnuplot (cvs), gd driver (gd.trmI uses enhanced text mode and
  the font name of which is symbol is specially treated and can be called 
  using the enhanced text mode of Adobe_Custom.

Therefore if you make a symbolic link Symbol.pfb to s050000l.pfb (which can be found in the gs(ghost
script) ), you can use symbol font as,

set term png enhanced
set out 'test.png'
set label "{/Symbol=14 \141\142\143}" at 0.1,0.9
set label "{/* \141\142\143}" at 0.1,0.8 font "Symbol,14"

This information was supplied by Shigeharu Takeno, one of the famous contributors to the gnuplot
in Japan.

Regards

Tatsuro 




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