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Re: Mac OS x IDL font handling [message #55263 is a reply to message #55250]

Wed, 08 August 2007 15:23

James Kuyper
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clivecoo...@gmail.com wrote:
> HI,
>
> I am still pretty new with running IDL within the Mac operating system
> and am having some problems with understanding the way in which fonts
> work. I only have a basic understanding on UNIX, so i think that this
> is my problem. So my question would be how do i plot a graph using for
> example a Times new roman font. In windows idl i set font =0 and then
> device,set_font="times new roman*bold*20" for example and it is easy
> to adjust the font size or whether or not its bold, italic or normal.
> Now on the Mac i am completely confused. the device fonts available to
> idl all have long seemingly complicated names eg ...-adobe-helvetica-
> bold-o-normal--18-180-75-80-p-103-iso8859-1

That looks like the same font naming conventions used on conventional
unix platforms. Is there an xfontsel utility available on the Mac? I
found playing around with that utility was very useful on Linux and
Irix machines for helping me understand what those conventions mean.

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