Re: Clogged tics in high-res pngcairo terminal

Thanks, Ethan.

Now that you're mentioning that, I remember performing a brew upgrade just
a few days ago.

I'll try tikz. Thanks for your help.

Dario


On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 00:02, Ethan Merritt <[email protected]> wrote:

> That output looks similar to previous reports that traced back to a bad
> version of the pango/cairo libraries on the affected machines.  In other
> words, to fix it you need to replace those libraries. No need to change
> anything in gnuplot per se.  Previous reporters said that "downgrading" the
> libraries fixed it for them but I do not remember the specific versions
> involved.  Or if you are working in a LaTeX friendly environment, I suggest
> using the tikz terminal to generate pdf output for use with pdflatex.
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:30 PM Dario Sanfilippo <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello, dear list.
>>
>> I am plotting a two-column, 1000-element-each CSV file using the script
>> attached.
>>
>> I am using pngcairo with enhanced font times 40 and a resolution of
>> 4096x2160.
>>
>> The resulting .png has the correct plots but the numbers of the values of
>> the tics are overlapped. See this image:
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/w1a9ch0emh3l1zl/singleplot.png?dl=0.
>>
>> If using the eps terminal, there is no problem with the tics, although I
>> don't seem to be able to use 'times', and I happened to have a hard time
>> loading eps files in the latex template of my uni so I'd prefer to stick
>> to
>> .png files.
>>
>> I have generated several .png files in the past using the same pngcairo
>> terminal as in the script and it was fine.
>>
>> If I had accidentally set something wrong, shouldn't the 'reset' at the
>> end
>> get rid of that?
>>
>> Thank you so much for your help.
>>
>> Dario
>>
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