NAME¶
hershey-font-gnuplot - Hershey vector fonts renderer for gnuplot
SYNOPSIS¶
hershey-font-gnuplot [
options]
font 'Text to Render'
hershey-font-gnuplot [
options]
font
DESCRIPTION¶
The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed circa 1967 by Dr.
A. V. Hershey.
hershey-font-gnuplot renders Hershey font text in the form of a
gnuplot input file. Its output must be piped to
gnuplot as shown
in the EXAMPLES section below.
If no 'Text to Render' is specified, a font sample sheet displaying all the
font's glyphs will be generated.
FONTS¶
The
font parameter must be the name of a system-installed Hershey font or
the filename of a Hershey font
.jhf file. The Hershey fonts likely to
be installed are:
astrology,
cursive,
cyrillic,
futural,
futuram,
gothgbt,
gothgrt,
gothiceng,
gothicger,
gothicita,
gothitt,
greekc,
greek,
greeks,
japanese,
markers,
mathlow,
mathupp,
meteorology,
music,
rowmand,
rowmans,
rowmant,
scriptc,
scripts,
symbolic,
timesg,
timesib,
timesi,
timesrb,
timesr
OPTIONS¶
- -T 'gnuplot_terminal_type [gnuplot_terminal_opts]'
- Set gnuplot output type and options, for example:
-T pdf
-T png
-T 'png crop transparent'
See gnuplot's set terminal command for more output type
options. If not specified, an X11 window display ( wxt) is
selected.
- -h font_height
- Set the font height in pixels (default 100).
EXAMPLES¶
hershey-font-gnuplot japanese | gnuplot -p
hershey-font-gnuplot futural 'Hello World!' | gnuplot -p
hershey-font-gnuplot gothiceng 'Calligraphy' | gnuplot -p
hershey-font-gnuplot -T 'png crop' scriptc 'Nice Text' | gnuplot > out.png
SEE ALSO¶
gnuplot(1)
AUTHOR¶
hershey-font-gnuplot was written by Kamal Mostafa
<kamal@whence.com>.
