3.1.3 Preparing True Type Font Files

JpGraph contains as default a standard set of bitmap fonts which only supports the standard ASCII 7-bit character set. In order to use accented characters, UTF-8, Chinese, Japanese, etc You need to download TTF fonts. Due to various legal issues no TTF fonts are supplied in the JpGraph package. To enable TTF fonts there are three alternatives:

1. If you are on a Windows platform you can just point to the TTF directory in JpGraph to the standard fonts directory (e.g C:\windows\fonts\)
2. If you are on a Unix platform you can download and install the core MS WEB-initiative fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
3. It is also possible to use the Vera Bitstream TTF fonts available from http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

It is also necessary to make sure that the PHP installation supports TTF fonts (either through FreeType 1 or FreeType 2 libraries). I n addition some suitable TTF font files must also be available. To make the font files available for the library the directory path to the location of the font files must be specified in the configuration file, jpg-config.inc

JpGraph uses a standard naming convention for the TTF font files in order to be able to find the correct font files. This naming convention follows the standard naming of the available font files.

If the installation of the library is made on a computer running MS Windows then it is recommended to use the already available font files in Windows (usually located in C:\WINDOWS\FONTS).

If the installation is made on a UNIX derivate running X11 then the font location can differ between versions and UNIX brands. One commonly used path is "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/".

Finally we note that it is possible to install additional fonts not natively supported by the library. Since this requires augmenting the library files this is considered advanced use and not further discussed in this introduction.