Re: [ferret_users] publication quality fonts

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I second Bill's opinion. 

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustafson, William I" <william.gustafson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:53 am
Subject: Re: [ferret_users] publication quality fonts

> This issue has come up before on this discussion group. 
> Unfortunately, my impression is that the graphics core used by 
> Ferret cannot handle postscript or other "pretty" fonts. This is my 
> biggest complaint with Ferret, although I don't let it stop me from 
> using Ferret. I find it faster to clean up the fonts later in 
> Illustrator than to go through the trouble of writing several 
> hundred lines of code in NCL or IDL when Ferret can do the same 
> thing in a dozen. In reality, I have gotten lazier as I age and 
> value my time more than the prettiness of my graphics and often 
> forgo the effort I used to put into making them "perfect".
> 
> If the Ferret developers could ever get postscript fonts, or at 
> least something like Helvetica, into Ferret, I could convert a lot 
> more folks in my group to use it.
> 
> -Bill
> 
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> 
> On 3/1/10 2:22 PM, "William S. Kessler" 
> <william.s.kessler@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Interesting. One of the important reasons I use Ferret is because the
> plots (including fonts) are better-looking than other plotting 
> packages.
> But if you don't like the Ferret fonts, then I think you are out of
> luck. You would have to replace them in an external program (Adobe
> Illustrator).
> 
> Billy K
> 
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Praveen V K wrote:
> 
> > Greetings to all,
> >
> >   Is there any way to get publication quality fonts in Ferret as in
> > other famous plotting applications? I tried most of the fonts
> > available for ferret, but none of them is not as good as others.
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Praveen V K
> >
> 
> 
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