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>.

                                         27 November 2013                 HERSHEY-FONT-GNUPLOT(1)