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Subject: Re: Script font in gnuplot?
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:29:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:04:28 +0000, geep wrote:

> 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

I forgot to say that I use these commands to use the font:
set term pdfcairo font "Jenna Sue,7.5" size 21.0 cm,29.7 cm
set output "measurements.pdf"