From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11232 invoked by alias); 8 May 2015 17:04:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11217 invoked by uid 89); 8 May 2015 17:04:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_ASCII_DIVIDERS,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock02.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock02.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.242) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 May 2015 17:04:05 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock02.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t48H43MN020147 for ; Fri, 8 May 2015 13:04:03 -0400 Received: from [10.128.128.124] (dhcp-gs-124.eduroam.cornell.edu [10.128.128.124]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t48H42f7022941 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 8 May 2015 13:04:03 -0400 Message-ID: <554CEC83.4040303@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 21:57:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fonts References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-05/txt/msg00103.txt.bz2 On 5/8/2015 2:48 AM, Axel Heinrici wrote: > Hello, > > .........1.........2.........3.........4.........5.........6.........7 > I use gnuplot and some bash-skripts on a Cygwin x86_64-Installation to > generate a number of plots. Filetype is png because plenty of colleagues > will look into the plots. > Usually gnuplot sends the message: > <====================== > fontconfig: Couldn't find font. when opening font "arial", using internal > non-scalable font > ======================> > That could be a solution if I could force gnuplot always to do so. > when exporting GDFONTPATH=/cygwin/x/Windows/Fonts > I can use Arial Font without error. > > The Problem is that I do not understand which font is available or not. > In c:\Windows\Fonts\ there is a scalable Font called "Terminal", but I > get the error message: > <====================== > fontconfig: Couldn't find font. when opening font Terminal, trying default > ======================> > gnuplot then uses arial. > > If I run fc-list I get exactly one empty line. > > Since I use my skripts in productive environment I would like to have > deterministic behaviour. > > What is chain of command between gnuplot, GD-Terminal, fontconfig and what > is involved there. I can't answer your question, but the fontconfig issue is simply that fontconfig doesn't know about the Windows font directory. See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-05/msg00009.html Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple