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Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update

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Karl wrote:

> 
> Italic fonts are really impossible outside postscript for me:
> 
> 
> In wtx enhanced mode, "{/anything,Italic Text}" gives a very thin and
> ugly italic font, if "anything" is not a valid font name.
> 
> if "anything" is a valid font name, you get said font, in upright
> form, with or without ",Italic"
> 
> 
> Fonts with spaces in their name cannot be selected, it gives (same any
> invalid font name) the standard Sans font.
> 
> 
> 
> Times-New-Roman can be selected with the terminal or with set label,
> but no italics is possible there, either (that is expected, i think).
> 
> gnuplot is the official 463 windows build.
> 
> Does anyone observe this, too?

No, but I'm not using Windows so it doesn't prove much.

Gnuplot does not do its own font handling.  It passes a request for
the named font, plus possibly the italic or bold attributes, to the
cairo library.  So I suspect that the answer to your problem lies
outside gnuplot per se.  If you get the fonts installed under the
names or places that the cairo library expects to find them, then
probably things will start working from gnuplot as well as any other
cairo applications.

	Ethan

> 
>   Karl

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Italic fonts on windows ? Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2013-04-17 18:27 +0200
  Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2013-04-22 03:37 +0200
    Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-04-21 20:08 -0700
      Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update Karl <ratzsch@polymer.uka.de> - 2013-04-22 11:41 +0200
        Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-04-22 08:47 -0700
          Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update "Ed Bennett" <ed.bennett@ntlworld.com> - 2013-04-23 01:44 +0100
            Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-04-22 22:21 -0700
              Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2013-04-23 08:44 +0200
                Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2013-04-23 09:34 +0200
                Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-04-23 08:54 -0700
                Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2013-04-23 21:14 +0200
                Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-04-23 14:58 -0700
                Re: Italic fonts on windows ? update Karl <ratzsch@polymer.uka.de> - 2013-04-24 14:28 +0200

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