Matlab Plot - Font Zapf Dingbats Will Not Render

Question

I have a Matlab program where I need to include a plane icon (Zapf Dingbats 40) in the plot. Everytime I run it, it falls back to a system font.

Is there anything that

Answer 1

You may use the 'Wingdings' font for that. The following code

text(0.5, 0.5, char(81), 'fontname', 'Wingdings', 'fontsize',50);

gives

The 'ZapfDingbats' font may not be in the /Library/Font folder (but 'Wingdings' is), even if listfonts tells you that the font is there. Actually, the listfonts function adds some extra fonts to the list of the available fonts, and I don't get the rational of that.

% always add postscipt fonts to the system fonts list.
systemfonts = [fonts;
    {
    'AvantGarde';
    'Bookman';
    'Courier';
    'Helvetica';
    'Helvetica-Narrow';
    'NewCenturySchoolBook';
    'Palatino';
    'Symbol';
    'Times';
    'ZapfChancery';
    'ZapfDingbats';
    }];