On 10/1/07, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We can first try to track down whether the Arial MS Unicode font is > getting picked up. In your matplotlibrc, can you add: > > verbose: debug-annoying
Michael, Thank you. Interesting results: With verbose.level set to debug-annoying, these lines look significant: findfont failed Arial Unicode MS, normal, normal 500, normal, 14.0 Could not match Arial Unicode MS, normal, normal. Returning /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/cmex10.ttf Well, I played around with this a little more and found the problem! The font.weight of 'medium' (500) is what could not be found. When I switched font.weight to 'normal' (400) in matplotlibrc, it worked and the graph was rendered with the correct glyph. (This worked for the DejaVu Sans font, still no luck with Arial Unicode MS, but, that's fine.) So, problem solved, thanks again! :) Here's something I noticed: When I copied ARIALUNI.TTF into /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/ and ran the test plot, all the characters are gibberish. Actually, they are glyphs, but, the wrong ones. The same thing happens if I copy Thyromanes .ttf files into that directory, or if I put those files in the $TTFPATH directory. In fact, it also happens if I copy andalemo.ttf, and that font doesn't include extra unicode characters. So, I'll paste the entire debug-annoying output that occurred when I was getting the gibberish text on the plot at the end of this email. As you can see, I set the font to a nonsense string to illustrate that the problem occurs even if the extra font in the directory isn't being requested. Also, I made sure that the extra font wasn't duplicated anywhere else in the search path. Cheers, --Dave Loyall loaded rc file /home/hobbes/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc matplotlib version 0.90.1 verbose.level debug-annoying interactive is False units is False platform is linux2 loaded modules: ['_bisect', 'distutils', 'pylab', 'datetime', 'matplotlib.tempfile', 'distutils.sysconfig', 'pytz.datetime', 'pytz.cStringIO', 'struct', 'tempfile', 'imp', 'pytz.os', 'zipimport', 'string', 'encodings.utf_8', 'matplotlib.__future__', 'pytz.tzinfo', 'distutils.re', 'bisect', 'signal', 'random', 'token', 'matplotlib.pytz', 'dis', 'pytz.tzfile', 'cStringIO', 'locale', 'encodings', 'dateutil', 'matplotlib.warnings', 'pytz.pytz', 'matplotlib.sys', 're', 'math', 'fcntl', 'UserDict', 'inspect', 'distutils.os', 'matplotlib', 'codecs', 'md5', '_locale', 'matplotlib.os', 'thread', 'sre', 'itertools', 'opcode', 'distutils.sys', 'os', '__future__', '_sre', '__builtin__', 'matplotlib.re', 'distutils.string', 'matplotlib.datetime', 'posixpath', 'errno', 'binascii', 'sre_constants', 'matplotlib.md5', 'types', 'pytz.sys', 'tokenize', '_codecs', 'pytz', 'copy', 'matplotlib.dateutil', 'posix', 'encodings.aliases', 'exceptions', 'sre_parse', 'pytz.bisect', 'copy_reg', 'sre_compile', '_random', 'pytz.struct', 'site', '__main__', 'shutil', 'strop', 'encodings.codecs', 'gettext', 'encodings.exceptions', 'pytz.sets', 'stat', 'warnings', 'encodings.types', 'sys', 'os.path', 'pytz.gettext', 'matplotlib.distutils', 'distutils.errors', 'linecache', 'matplotlib.shutil', 'sets'] numerix numpy 1.0.3 font search path ['/usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf', '/usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/afm'] trying fontname /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/cmex10.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/cmr10.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/cmmi10.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/cmsy10.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/cmtt10.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/ARIALUNI.TTF trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-padauk/Padauk-Bold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdanai.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-andika/AndikaDesRevG.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaBrightRegular.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Georgia_Bold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-andika/AndikaDesRevE.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/georgiab.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansOblique.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Comic_Sans_MS_Bold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Georgia_Bold_Italic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-andika/AndikaDesRevC.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaBrightDemiItalic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman_Bold_Italic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Impact.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf trying fontname 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trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/trebuc.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-junicode/Junicode-Regular.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdanaz.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/georgiai.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Andale_Mono.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaSansRegular.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Georgia_Italic.ttf trying fontname 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trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-thryomanes/thryb___.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arialbd.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/timesbd.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS_Bold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdana.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoOblique.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/comic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/webdings.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Bold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/trebucit.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/timesbi.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-thryomanes/thryi___.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Comic_Sans_MS.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/impact.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/verdanab.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Trebuchet_MS_Bold_Italic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaSansDemiOblique.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi/kochi-mincho-subst.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-junicode/Junicode-BoldItalic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/trebucbd.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifItalic.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-andika/AndikaDesRevA.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-andika/AndikaDesRevF.ttf trying fontname /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman_Bold.ttf $HOME=/home/hobbes CONFIGDIR=/home/hobbes/.matplotlib loaded ttfcache file /home/hobbes/.matplotlib/ttffont.cache matplotlib data path /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data Could not load matplotlib icon: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/matplotlib.svg' backend GTKAgg version 2.10.6 FigureCanvasAgg.draw RendererAgg.__init__ RendererAgg.__init__ width=640.0, height=480.0 RendererAgg.__init__ _RendererAgg done RendererAgg.__init__ done RendererAgg._get_agg_font findfont failed FOOFOOFOO Could not match FOOFOOFOO, normal, normal. 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Returning /usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/fonts/ttf/cmex10.ttf RendererAgg._get_agg_font RendererAgg.draw_text RendererAgg._get_agg_font FigureCanvasAgg.buffer_rgba RendererAgg.buffer_rgba ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users