Using fonts with the print command

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Mar-2008, Dave T 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 seems to be some magical
| length limit on the path name.

Other than limits imposed by your OS or the filesystem you ar using,
there shouldn't be any limits on the length of a filename.  If there
is, you should report it as a bug to the address@hidden list.  But
before you do, please read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to see what
information to include in your report so that someone might actually
be able to reproduce and fix the problem.

| When I did this in octave:
| 
|   title ('My plot', 'FontName', 
"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-mgopen/MgOpenModernaBold.ttf");
| 
| I got an error.

What error?

| So I copied the font file to a directory with a
| shorter name and shortened the file name as well:
| 
|   title ('My plot', 'FontName', "/home/dave/Fonts/MdrnaBd.ttf");
| 
| This works just fine.

jwe