gnuplot MSWindows fontconfig blown away by recent update
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Feb 2 21:17:00 GMT 2015
On 1/31/2015 1:28 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Hi, I use gnuplot which requires fontconfig info to use Windows fonts. Some
> recent update (one of the graphic libs?) appears to have blown this info
> away. So gnuplot is now using its default internal fonts which messes up the
> appearance and layout of dozens of regularly scheduled plots from my data
> sources. I do not use Xwindows or Xfonts so the X11 font docs do not explain
> much. How can I restore gnuplot access to Windows fonts?
This is a result of a change in Cygwin's fontconfig package:
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-05/msg00009.html
I don't know whether Yaakov is still planning to make a a separate package to
add the Windows font directory to the default font path.
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
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list