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HERSHEY-FONT-GNUPLOT

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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>.