Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:15:21 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9" Message-ID: <20090917161521.GA9122@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090917155814.GA22231@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>
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--UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Roland, perhaps you also know the origin of this gnuplot warning: >=20 > Could not find/open font when opening font "arial", > using internal non-scalable font >=20 > 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 fo= nt file, or the font filename (not the font name, AFAIK). In the latter case y= ou have to set the GDFONTPATH variable containing the path. =20 > 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 --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqyYJkACgkQEnfvsMMhpyXp/wCfWIMkITXL15XOww1PaukVdviE OPEAnA79muJ6MBxk1BrIvpRhb+izb5RI =lbbS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--
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