Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: geep Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Script font in gnuplot? Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <97rn0vFe2cU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gHhNvaGUF5At9J6VuitmMg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pan/0.134 (Wait for Me; GIT cb32159 master) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:430 On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:03:59 +0200, Ingo Thies wrote: > Hi, > > a colleague wants to use script style fonts (i.e. that look like > handwriting) in gnuplot, in particular, lower-case fonts. I tried the > script fonts listed in gnuplot.pdf, but they didn't appear as script, > but rather as some Courier-like font (maybe not properly reproduced by > gv and ps2pdf). I guess that she'll need to include a separate font > file. Does anyone know a free font that could be used here? > > Best wishes, > > Ingo Try "Jenna Sue" from here: http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=603&page=1 Or there are lots of others to choose from. "Jenna Sue" works fine with gnuplot on my Slackware 13.37 x86_64. I installed the font first. Copied to JennaSue.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF then ran (as root): mkfontscale mkfontdir fc-cache -fv xset fp rehash I suppose other Linux have similar font install procedures. Cheers, Peter