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