A problem with fonts and/or printing PNG files?

John W. Eaton jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Mon Mar 3 01:25:54 CST 2008


On  2-Mar-2008, Dwight Poplin wrote:

| If for some reason, setting GDFONTPATH doesn't work, you can specify the full path to the font.  It's a yucky hack, but it works.  I discovered thru trial and error that there is some magical length limit on the path name.  When I did this in octave:
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|   title ('My plot', 'FontName', "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-mgopen/MgOpenModernaBold.ttf");
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| I got a "***stack smashing detected***" error.

Is this problem reproducible for you?

jwe



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