[GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m

[Michael Barton]

D.font.freetype is not supported in gis.m. It became increasingly
problematic on Mac (and Windows?) platforms.

Gis.m replaces this with postscript text for vector labels and for manually
positioned text. This only is saved to graphic output if you save as eps
(i.e., not jpeg or tiff). But the eps image has nicer looking text than
d.font.freetext.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton



> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:10:48 -0300
> To: "'grassuser at grass.itc.it'" <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: [GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m
> 
> I'm a bit behind on gism developments recently...can anyone tell me if
> d.font.freetype is supported in gis.m? I tried using it to label some vector
> points with today's cvs version, and it's still complaining about no monitor
> being open. Is there a workaround instead?
> 
> ~ Eric.
> 
>