Re: Changing plot fonts linux

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 6:25 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

It seems that changing a font is not a trivial issue any more. This
tutorials are not working for me in 4.0.0-rc2 (after fixing the paths
to point to my ttf fonts)

https://engineeringliberty.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/making-great-plots-in-octave-and-matlab-too/

I tried with gnuplot (png and pngcairo) and fltk.

set(0, "defaultaxesfontname", <font-name>)

Is also not working.

How do you change fonts in a plot?

>> set(0, 'DefaultAxesFontname', 'LiberationSerif,14')
>> set(0, 'DefaultTextFontname', 'LiberationSerif,14')
>> plot([-1,1],[-1,1])
>> text(0,0, "Test LiberationSerif")
>> print('t1.pdf', '-dpdfcairo')
>> print('t1.png', '-dpngcairo')

Works for me.
 

​Dmitri.
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