How do I find out which font is chosen by gnuplot when only specifying family?

fonts, gnuplot

Solution

I created a file `test.gp`

set terminal pngcairo font "sans,9" size 1500,1000
set output "test.png"
plot sin(x)

Run gnuplot under `strace`

strace -o st.out gnuplot test.gp

grep

grep 'open.*/usr/share/font.*' st.out

gives me (`Linux 3.0.0-22-generic #36-Ubuntu`)

open("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf", O_RDONLY) = 5

Problem

I'm using the pngcairo terminal within gnuplot to produce images. Font is set to "sans,9" when specifying the terminal. How can I tell which specific font was picked for rendering? terminal command: set terminal pngcairo font "sans,9" size 1500,1000 (edit) More info: Installed under Windows 7 OS. I just need to find what font was used for the given statement in gnuplot 4.4.4, which was used to create many plots. gnuplot 4.6.0 decides on a different font for the same statement, and it would be practically impossible to re-render all earlier plots to match.

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