Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:04:02 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port math/gnuplot hangs and ignores "kill -9" Message-ID: <20090918090402.GA49183@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090917161521.GA9122@slackbox.xs4all.nl> 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>
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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
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