Francis Poulin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I sent this request to octave-help and they suggested that I ask fink
> since that's how I installed it. If you think I should bug them
> please let me know. I'm running Mac OS x 10.5.5 on my MacBook Pro
> with Xcode 3.1.1.
>
> The basic problem is that the plots in octave, which uses gnuplot,
> look really good. Unfortunately, when I export it to a file it uses a
> different fault. In particular, an ugly font. I recently figured out
> how to change the font of the x,y labels and the title by specifying
> which font to use by telling it where. The syntax is
>
> set (0, 'defaulttextfontname', '/Library/Fonts/Arial');
>
> where I have a file called Arial.ttf in the above mentioned directory.
>
> When I export the figure as a png those fonts look great but the axis
> fonts still look awful. Is there a similar command that will change
> the axis font and size?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Francis
>
>
Sounds like a standard upstream cop-out: "you used Fink so blame them."
Our packaging of octave/gnuplot doesn't do anything special to the fonts
that I know of. You might try the "official" octave app bundle from
octave.sf.net and see if you get different results; if you do then maybe
there's something which isn't set up in our packages that should be.
I personally found that I get the best results for figures by exporting
to EPS via octave's
print("filename.eps")
I typically just need EPS or PDF; I haven't looked into other formats.
Since you solved the the title font problem by using a command from
within octave, then the answer to the axis font is likely there (and I
don't happen to know that answer), and if so the octave people were,
IMHO, bad citizens for not giving you that information and instead
sending you here.
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