Hi everyone
I'm a matplotlib's beginner user and I had a problem that seems to be
a bug. If I enable the option ps.useafm and I ask for a font that is
not available in my OS, the matplotlib's font manager tries to get a
default font, which is Vera (I don't know how the default font is set
to Vera, since I removed it from the font.serif and font.sans-serif
lists). The problem is that the font manager is getting a ttf file, in
my OS it is located at
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/tf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf. Therefore I'm
getting the error:
Could not match Arial, normal, 400. Returning
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/tf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf (this line is
showed when I use the option --verbose-helpful)
...
...
...
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/afm.py", line 295,
in __init__
parse_afm(fh)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/afm.py", line 281,
in parse_afm
_sanity_check(fh)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/afm.py", line 76,
in _sanity_check
raise RuntimeError('Not an AFM file')
RuntimeError: Not an AFM file
Is this a bug? Shouldn't matplotlib try to get an AFM default font,
rather than a ttf font, in case it cannot find what I'm looking for
(with ps.useafm=True)? In my case I put the font Arial but matplotlib
was not able to find it. Some details: I'm using ubuntu hardy and
matplotlib version 0.98.3. backend PS to generated eps files. My
decision to use AFM is to reduce the file sizes.
Kind regards,
Marco
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