Re: [Plplot-devel] Java issues

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

I've now done the breezy -> dapper upgrade on my Ubuntu box and the
pango / fontconfig problems have gone away again. I guess that we can
put it down to a bug in the versions in breezy and suggest an upgrade.

Unless anyone has a particular interest I don't intend to pursue this
any further for now.

As an aside, you may not realise that the psttf driver provides 5
environment variables 
	PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SANS_FAMILY
	PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SERIF_FAMILY
	PLPLOT_FREETYPE_MONO_FAMILY
	PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SCRIPT_FAMILY
	PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SYMBOL_FAMILY
which you can set to specify preferred fonts for the driver to use.
This can be a comma separated list. For example, the default for the
sans font is "Arial,Bitstream-Vera-Sans,sans".

Andrew