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Re: Using device fonts in object graphics ? [message #82613 is a reply to message #82612]

Thu, 03 January 2013 10:04

David Fanning
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George.millward@yahoo.com writes:

> Hmm - but doesn't that mean that object graphics only has access to Times,
> Helvetica and Courier ?

As far as I know, you can use any true-type font you have
installed on your machine:

Device, TT_FONT=1, SET_FONT='WhatEverYouHave'

There is no guarantee someone who uses your program will have
this font, however, so if we write code that is distributed,
we usually restrict ourselves to fonts distributed with IDL.
I've been using the DejaVuSans font quite a lot lately. I
like it for most things. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Using device fonts in object graphics ? By: George.millward on Thu, 03 January 2013 10:23
		Re: Using device fonts in object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 January 2013 10:10
		Re: Using device fonts in object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 January 2013 10:04
		Re: Using device fonts in object graphics ? By: George.millward on Thu, 03 January 2013 09:59
		Re: Using device fonts in object graphics ? By: George.millward on Thu, 03 January 2013 09:50
		Re: Using device fonts in object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Thu, 03 January 2013 09:44

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