Re: Using fonts with the print command

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Jul-2008, natblist wrote:

| 
| Thanks Dave, this was a big help,
| 
| Just to add to Dave T's info, if you're using windows (as I am :) with
| octave 3, to get the fonts to work, use the full path to the windows font
| like this:
| 
| title ("foo bar" ,'FontName', 'c:/windows/fonts/Arial.ttf')   ; 
| 
| I messed around with adding GDFONT environment variable in 'doze, but the
| above was the only way that worked for me in 3.0.1.

I would try to avoid that in my code because then it will not be
portable to systems that don't recognize filenames like
"c:/windows/...".

Or, at least I would not set the font in each graphics call that uses
text.  Instead, I would at least use

  set (0, "defaulttextfontname", "c:/windows/fonts/Arial.ttf");

to set the default for all text objects.

I assume you are using gnuplot.  Perhaps someone here can explain how
to get gnuplot on Windows systems to recognize the fonts properly
without having to specify a full filename.

jwe