On 2006-11-05 22:14+0100 wim van hoydonck wrote: > Hi Arjen, > >> What happens if you build without freetype? > > Then it works, but the fonts look horrible. :-( > >> Looking at the source code, I'd say you have not set all the >> environment variables yet to point to the various fonts. > > Do you mean that apart from the following three configure options, I > have to set every individual freetype font name with the configure > options? > > --with-freetype2-incdir User-specified path to the libfreetype2 header > files > --with-freetype2-libdir User-specified path to libfreetype2 > --with-freetype-font-dir user-specified directory for freetype fonts > > Pointing the last one to "/usr/share/fonts/freetype" should be enough, not?
The psttf device driver automatically uses a chain of libraries (starting with the LASI library that includes fontconfig so that is why it works for you. Most/all of our other devices (such as gcw) do not use fontconfig to handle TrueType fonts (although that is certainly one of our higher priorities since it makes font life much easier for users). Instead, they simply call the freetype library with the path+name of the font file. You can find the default Linux font file names and default Linux value for --with-freetype-font-dir in cf/freetype.ac. The first default font file name is FreeSans.ttf which is part of the ttf-freefont package. On my system that is located at /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont (the default value of --with-freetype-font-dir), but it may be in a different directory on your system or you may (not yet) have the ttf-freefont font package installed. Also, I should emphasize the ttf-freefont package of fonts is convenient but not essential. You have complete access to any truetype fonts on your system, but you will have to name them specifically at configuration time for the 30 kinds of fonts we support or at run-time with environment variables. Check our documentation at plplot.sourceforge.net for more details. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
