hershey-font-gnuplot - Hershey vector fonts renderer for gnuplot
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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.
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
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, timesrName
hershey-font-gnuplot - Hershey vector fonts renderer for gnuplot
Options
-T'gnuplot_terminal_type[gnuplot_terminal_opts]'
Set gnuplot output type and options, for example:
-Tpdf-Tpng-T'pngcroptransparent'
See gnuplot's setterminal command for more output type options. If not specified, an X11 window
display (wxt) is selected.
-hfont_height
Set the font height in pixels (default 100).
See Also
gnuplot(1)
Synopsis
hershey-font-gnuplot [options] font 'Text to Render'
hershey-font-gnuplot [options] font