[Gretl-users] fonts and colors in saved plot

[Allin Cottrell]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> Allin Cottrell schrieb:
> > 
> > Thanks for the detailed report.  I'll take a look at the things 
> > you mention, but here's an initial response.
> 
> Okay, thanks for the insightful information. I'm taking a look at the
> gnuplot 4.2 documentation, and it seems to be at least intended to be
> more coherent concerning different drivers.

Yes, I think they're slowly heading in that direction.

> Anyway, maybe I'm missing the point, but for the postscript terminal the
> manual says
> 
> {{font} "fontname{,fontsize}" {<fontsize>}}
> and
> "<fontname>" is the name of a valid PostScript font;
> 
> So my preliminary conclusion from this would be that there's a 
> choice of font names like "Times-Roman", "Helvetica", etc. in 
> double quotes, which appears to be different syntax from the png 
> terminal. Also, the list of Truetype fonts offered in the gretl 
> dialog would be more or less irrelevant or invalid for 
> postscript.
> 
> Is this reasoning correct?

Yes, it seems right to me.  I'll try some experimentation myself.

Allin.