Re: Using fonts with the print command

[Dave T]

>| 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.

right. i just discovered a memory leak in the virtual machine i'm using to run 
Linux. i want to fix that and make sure it's not related to this problem. if i 
still have the problem, i will definitely report this as a bug.

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

>What error?

a "**stack smashing error**".


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