On 2007-01-16 23:18+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > I did the test run. All examples seem to work, except example 7, 23 and 24. > They are empty.
Hi Werner: I am going to post my response to the results of your test of the windows version of -dev psttfc for all examples to plplot-devel because other windows PLplot developers should be able to use this information to get the best out of -dev psttfc for that platform. The three examples you mentioned tend to use exotic unicode ranges (math symbols, Greek, and Russian for example 7, extremely exotic math symbols for example 23, and non-Western human language unicode ranges for example 24, see below.) Therefore, I agree with you the error is most likely due to no officially installed fonts that can handle those exotic unicode ranges. To take care of this issue, I suggest you install the fonts from the freefont project (http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/). Those fonts cover all unicode ranges used in our examples except those used in example 24. That example requires freefont and additionally the following font packages on Debian ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-devanagari-fonts ttf-unfonts ttf-bengali-fonts Here are the descriptions of those packages: Package: ttf-arphic-bkai00mp Description: "AR PL KaitiM Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology "AR PL KaitiM Big5" is a high-quality Chinese TrueType font (bkai00mp.ttf) generously provided by Arphic Technology to the Free Software community under the "Arphic Public License". . If you use X Window System, be sure to install the "x-ttcidfont-conf" package so you can use this font in X. . You also need to install the "tfm-arphic-bkai00mp" package for typesetting with Omega or with CJK for LaTeX (cjk-latex). . Author: Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. URL: http://www.arphic.com.tw/ Package: ttf-devanagari-fonts Description: Free TrueType fonts for languages using the Devanagari script This is a set of TrueType and OpenType fonts released under the GNU General Public License for languages that use the Devanagari script such as Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit. Package: ttf-unfonts Description: Un series Korean TrueType fonts This is a set of Korean TrueType fonts. These fonts were made from the HLaTeX's PostScript fonts and modified slightly. . They include 7 families of Korean fonts. Package: ttf-bengali-fonts Description: Free TrueType fonts for the Bengali language This is a set of TrueType and OpenType fonts released under the GNU General Public License for the Bengali Language. I hope these descriptions will help you to find roughly equivalent windows font packages. Note, on Debian you have to do an official system install of fonts to make font-config aware of them. I don't understand the details of this procedure, but fortunately for me that is all automatically handled when you use apt-get to install the Debian font packages such as ttf-freefont. For windows, I assume there is some similar standard procedure to install fonts which the fontconfig back-end to libpango "should" automatically be aware of. Good luck getting these final three examples to work. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
