From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 18 09:04:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7058D106568B for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA7D8FC0A for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MoZNr-000491-9l; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:04:09 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1MoZNq-000094-M3; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:04:03 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8I942KW049195; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:04:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8I9422H049194; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:04:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:04:02 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20090918090402.GA49183@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090914153728.GA60162@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090914154241.GA60268@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090914172233.GA69286@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090917123404.GA101@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090917131616.GA1393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090917155814.GA22231@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090917161521.GA9122@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090917161521.GA9122@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: Anton Shterenlikht , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:04:10 -0000 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:15:21PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > Roland, perhaps you also know the origin of this gnuplot warning: > > > > Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", > > using internal non-scalable font > > > > From searching the net it appears that gnuplot is not finding truetype > > fonts, something to do with GD library. I've got xorg-fonts-truetype-7.4 > > and gd-2.0.35_1,1 installed. So I'm not sure what the problem is. > > When using gd fonts, you must either specify either the full path of the font > file, or the font filename (not the font name, AFAIK). In the latter case you > have to set the GDFONTPATH variable containing the path. > > > Several functions are not available without truetype fonts, e.g. label > > rotation, which is sometimes useful. > > I used the following with the PNG terminal: > > set terminal png font "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf" 8 \ > size 300,150 x76848f xb1b1b1 xb1b1b1 x00ff00 x00ff00 x00ff00 x00ff00 Roland, thank you, very helpful. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423