[GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m

[Michael Barton]

This is doable now in the GIS Manager. V.label has been replaced by
postscript labels.

Michael
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:10:30 -0300
> To: 'Hamish ' <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>, 'Glynn Clements '
> <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Cc: "'grassuser at grass.itc.it '" <grassuser at grass.itc.it>,
> "'michael.barton at asu.edu '" <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Subject: RE: [GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m
> 
> My impetus for posting was that I missed the ability to label vectors with
> nice fonts like arial or other custom fonts our carto guys have developed.
> Do you think it would be reasonable to have an environmental variable to
> handle the 'global' grass font? I would be nice to just throw a default font
> into .grass.bashrc and forget about having to tweak fonts later.
> 
> ~ Eric. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it
> To: Glynn Clements
> Cc: grassuser at grass.itc.it; michael.barton at asu.edu
> Sent: 6/9/2006 5:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m
> 
>> There should be an option to set the default font. You would need to
>> reset the font after calling anything which might change it (which
>> includes all command layers, as there's no reliable way to determine
>> whether a particular command will change the font).
> 
> I'd only put it at the startup/d.erase stage. If the user wants to call
> something that changes the font, then let them have that control.
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
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