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Issue: hieroglyphics on plot

Reproducing: whenever i try to make any plot i do not get figure as expected. As an example i took snippet from cookbook

// a code sample may improve communication
ar plt = new ScottPlot.Plot(600, 400);

// sample data
double[] xs = DataGen.Consecutive(51);
double[] sin = DataGen.Sin(51);
double[] cos = DataGen.Cos(51);

// plot the data
plt.AddScatter(xs, sin);
plt.AddScatter(xs, cos);

// customize the axis labels
plt.Title("ScottPlot Quickstart");
plt.XLabel("Horizontal Axis");
plt.YLabel("Vertical Axis");

plt.SaveFig("quickstart_scatter.png");

and got this I tried to invoke SetCulture method but it did not workout.

System Details

• ScottPlot Version: 4.1.45
• Operating System: MacOS 11.2.3 (Big Sur)
• Application Type: console
• .NET Version: .NET 5, .NET 6

[bclehmann]

The wording “You may also need to…” is misleading, it implies that you only need to do that if you’re using specific features or have a niche use-case. Normally when it shows up in docs it’s something that you can (normally) ignore.

I think better wording is “You will also need to…”. It may still benefit from being placed more prominently, although it’s in the same place where we tell users to install libgdiplus, and I don’t think we get lots of people reporting issues because they didn’t see that. But I don’t see all the issues (or get any of the emails). Plus there are likely a lot of people that cannot get it working and just switch to an alternative library, rather than open an issue.

[Stepami]

Thanks a lot, that explicit installation of System.Drawing.Common has really helped. So you could write about the case in the docs or smth.