Thanks Michael! I installed fondu and converted my Helvetica.dfont to .ttf
and put them in /Users/ybendana/Library/Fonts. However, the fontManager was
still picking up the /System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont. As a
workaround, I edited font_manager.py line 209 in findSystemFonts() to build
the font cache from only .ttf fonts:
for f in OSXInstalledFonts(fontext=fontext):
After deleting the ~/.matplotlib/ttfont.cache, it now picks up the
Helvetica.ttf font.
yuri
On 9/12/07, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yuri,
>
> A .dfont file can be seen as a collection of .ttf files. A .dfont
> generally will contain the regular, bold and italic versions of a font,
> but matplotlib is hardcoded to only look at the first of them. So when
> you request "sans-serif", you get Helvetica. When you request
> "sans-serif:bold", it fails, (since it can't get to the bold version)
> and falls back on the default matplotlib font, Vera Sans Regular.
>
> Long term, we probably need to improve matplotlib to support dfonts
> correctly. As a workaround, you can adjust your font settings to refer
> to .ttf fonts, or convert your dfonts to ttf fonts using fondu.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> Yuri Bendaña wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a new user and I installed matplotlib 0.90.1 on Mac 10.4.9. I'm
> > using the WxAgg backend, which I installed using MacPorts. I haven't
> > had a problem so far except when I try to change font properties like
> > family, fontname, and weight. For example, the following doesn't work:
> >
> > figtext(0.8,0.3,"Large Folds", weight='bold', fontname='Helvetica')
> >
> > I only get the default font (I believe it's Vera) and no bold. This
> > also happens with the PDF backend so I don't think that's the problem.
> > I checked the fontManager object and verified that it knows where the
> > fonts are installed on my Mac. I can call findfont() and it does return
> > the Helvetica font:
> >
> > In [10]: fm.fontManager.findfont(fm.FontProperties('sans-serif'))
> > Out[10]: '/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.dfont'
> >
> > Does anyone have a solution for this?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > yuri
> >
> >
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